Quotes About Insight

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and then I saw the Elgin marbles. Suddenly, the world seemed more complicated.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

Nobody brainwashed me with God in my head or anything. I just saw this new reality, and I felt like I've been blinded, and I finally took the blindfolds off.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Data is a tool for enhancing intuition.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

When I talk to film students, I always say, 'Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes,' because that's such a great learning tool.

I really believe that comedy is an incredible tool, and you can use it in many ways.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that's pretty much what being a writer is - being there, watching and internalizing.

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in the world and, through observation, make sense of the world.

Knowing how other people wrote music is a great tool, which can be applied into your own musical mindset.

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

The most powerful tools you can have are information and knowledge.

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

Obviously, stats are important tools, but I think there's something behind those things; somewhere along the way, you've got to try to look inside someone.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.

We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.