Quotes About Insight

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us,' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

I have been active as a writer and journalist for nearly forty years. But the number of great reporters I have run across in that time would make, as they say, a slim book. Without question, the top man on my list would be Tommy Thompson.

There are certain cities around the world where it's possible to learn about tomorrow's technology as it's being developed today.

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it.

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.

Corporate blogging strategy requires some specialist insight in order to understand tone, the definition of micro-niche leaders, and subjects to cover.

Of course I know what works for me and what kind of tone I want my films to have.

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

If you want to build a startup that has a good chance of succeeding, don't listen to me. Listen to Paul Graham and others who are applying tons of data to the idea of startup success. That will maximize your chance of being successful.

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

Too clever is dumb.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.

I have a knack - and still do - where I can look at a guy and tell you if he's going to draw you money or not. That's very difficult to do. I haven't met too many people who can do that.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

I see too deep and too much.