Quotes About Insight

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.

It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.

You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.

I just want to show people I've matured, not just physically but mentally.

As a woman, I have access to hit women in a way that men might not be able to hit them with jokes. I don't mean physically hit. But you know, because I'm a woman, I can say things about women because I know what it's like to be a woman, if that makes any sense.

We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

I need physics more than friends.

Physics is the most basic part of science and, of course, math. It gives you insight into everything - a foundation, I should say, to understand nature and the universe.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.

If you pick up that information, the first metre or two, the ball coming out of the hand, you can analyse what's coming.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

I pick up on other people's discomfort.

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.

My brain is here for the picking, and a lot of people are calling me to see what I think about their business, and I'm brutally honest with them.

There is an art to eavesdropping, but I think to some extent we are all guilty of picking up those little odds and ends that can be quite intriguing if you analyse them.

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

Details create the big picture.