Quotes About Insight

I'm sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it's true. Advertising sucks. Guys like me and Bob Gage and certainly Bill Bernbach and two or three other guys, we exemplified and led the creative revolution.

When I meet people, I relay things I see and feel. And in a reading when I interact with a person, I'll pick up on sensations and feelings and piece them together to make a coherent thought. My goal is to always get specific information and relay details that people will connect to.

There's a remarkable power about reading together, reading collectively, that's brought out by reading groups.

You learn a lot about people when you're sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

I am old. And tired of the terrible clarity of the young.

So know yourselves first," she finished. "Then look back and account.

Art, Eliot wrote, is a guide to perception. It shows us how to look—or where to look—and then leaves us, as Virgil left Dante, to go beyond where the guide can take us.

Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.

Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all.

Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves

There is always half a truth in cliche.

Did nobody see where we were heading? Did nobody see through the shameless demagogy of the articles of Goebbels? I could see it even through the thick walls of the prison; yet more and more people outside were toeing the line.

I know. I'm angry because I understand, not because I don't.

A - Il n'y a pas de secrets M - Il n'y a que des aveugles

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

A fuller vision comes from our ability to recognize the fallibility in our current and past forms of sight.

If you want to know someone's secret, don't ask a thing. Just listen.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

vista no wider than their own sunbonnets.

It was starting to scare me a little, how easy I could read his face and what he did and didn't say. That ain't the same as being able to handle him, and I wasn't even pretending I had any kind of grip on what he might do when he was topside, but I was getting to where I knew his madness like it was an old friend.

Flat she might be, but not stupid.

How many times do you have to learn? Don't underestimate him.