Quotes About Insight

Never make a personnel judgment the first time it comes up.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

If you take a little time, let's say three weeks off, after recording a song, and you listen to it every other day, you're just going to know eventually.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.

It takes time to develop a sense of humor, shared world views.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.

You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.

...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a narrative always emerges.

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it.

There is always a harmonious solution... If you stand back and give yourself time to find it.

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.