Quotes About Insight

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, "There's a man in there!"Lincoln's good news, he confided from the heights of leadership, was that there was in fact a man in there.

The American democracy simply could not move forward after the civil rights era without adding to its great democratic principles an explicit social morality based on the insight that racism is immoral.

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife

It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.

Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.

All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.

Working people really amaze me. When you give them all the facts, they make the right decision every single time.

I suppose I've been working for a long time, so I've seen all kinds of filmmaking. I can fit into anything, and it doesn't feel that weird or that fascinating.

The thing I love about working with first-time directors is that it's always quite shocking how little difference there is between them and directors who've been directing all their lives.

The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.

The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.

The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.