Quotes About Insight

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

I use voiceover just like I use dialogue. There's a way to give out information or give out insight to the character or give out their worldview, and maybe you have to slip in exposition, but it's all about how you write it.

I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

P Street in D.C. is one of the worst areas in the city. Some of the things I saw, the things I experienced, the things we came through, really gave me a whole new perspective on life.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

Context is worth 80 IQ points.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment.

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.