Quotes About Insight

Hay más en ti de lo que ven los ojos

Just because a coach does not get out the clubs after a match but instead focuses on what he says, that's not an indicator of cluelessness.

I can only approach things indirectly, or I can't approach them at all.

I've lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that there's so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.

Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.

For me, trying to articulate the world to help people see it in a way they haven't seen it before is hugely important. Sometimes, you have to take something that is completely inexplicable and say, 'Look, here is the beating heart of something you must understand.'

My family had a lot to do with 'My Infamous Life.' They were the inspiration behind me starting to write. I had an interesting family life dating way back, and they did a lot in their lifetime.

99 percent of what you see is not what comes in through the eyes. It is what you infer about that room.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.

I am an incorrigible eavesdropper, so I am very much influenced by what I hear.

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

I've always been attracted to negative influences - I thought that meant you were smart.

You can never really tell what your influences are.

I shop at the market, and that informs what I make.

I think the best comedy enlightens, informs, and changes the way people look at the world.

The past has to inform the present.

Everybody's past and history informs them.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.