Quotes About Insight

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

I think other people's interpretations of what I've written are a lot better than what I have, because I don't understand a lot of what I write.

I like getting to the meat of things. You can't get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hone a person. I like to make eye contact.

If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes.

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.

I learn lessons with every interview I give.

Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.

Don't be the schmuck on the other side of the table. Don't get an interview with the guy. Be in the room with him while he's being interviewed by someone else.

With the long-format interview, I can get into really interesting conversations with my guests. You know what it's like to get the opportunity to speak to really interesting people and pick their brain about things. To have time to let a guest actually speak and tell a story and get into detail is really exciting.

When I interview someone, I want to find out about their life, get a sense of their personality, their passion. Maybe I'm hiring for a certain job, but even if your job is marketing, I'm going to ask you for your opinion on other things - taste this, what do you think of this bottle?

You've always got to have something to say, haven't you? For an interview. Something to talk about.

When I was interviewing Hillary Clinton, I knew when I'd ask her something that she wasn't going to give me the complete truth because she would break eye contact with me.

Because I come from the place of interviewing, I know how to answer a question giving you what you need to hear and not a minute more.

For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird.

She was a woman made up of details, and he saw them, every one.

the night of thought is the light of perception.

art is the link between appearance and reality.

To understand all is to forgive all.

We wonder how people can't see the most obvious things about themselves, yet we forget those people are us.

There are people we laugh at because they can't see the most obvious things about themselves. Well, those people are us!

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Artists are the antennae of the race.