Quotes About Insight

20/20 hindsight only proves you know how to polish a rear view mirror

Failure is a lesson, no matter how you see it. There's always something to learn from.

Whatever you are seeking you shall find. Patience and understanding, that's your key.

I believe that sometimes, when we talk about books, we're talking about the big picture - how they're relevant.

Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about it.

Everybody kind of looks to comedians and comedy for relief and a fresh breath about what is going on in the world.

Usually, I use writing as a way to figure out things about me, and I get scared pretty easily about everything. I deal with a lot of depression, so I usually use it as way to find some relief from that.

A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.

If I can learn how to rely on my own strength, I can see the answers to my problems usually lie right there, within the problem itself.

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.

I need to rely on the director's confidence and what he sees in me.

You have to see the situations in games, you can't just rely on other people to do it.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

When I go back through my work, I can see that I knew what I wanted to do. As a younger woman it took me a while to get the confidence and to try, but if anything, my eye has remained the same - though I've obviously learned along the way.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

I remember when I had to copy writing off the board at school it just looked to me like a magic eye picture, I could just see so many shapes.