Quotes About Insight

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

When you work for someone, you never realise how much you are learning. It is only when you leave and you reflect back on life.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.

The cancer battle, it helped me put a lot of things in perspective and gave me time to reflect and think.

Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

I want to tell stories that reflect how people are feeling.

I think sometimes you need distance to reflect.

When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write.

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

Kids need to see their world reflected back to them.

One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.

It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future.

While reflecting on past relationships and learning from them can be helpful, February isn't the best time to try and gain insight.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.

Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

I think I had a kind of pause for insight in my 20s when I wasn't in a relationship and my career wasn't going the way I wanted it to go. I had time for reflection then.

My films, sometimes, have my own reflections of life. They have life lessons I've had that I put across in a humorous or satirical way.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.