Quotes About Insight

I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

Sometimes you need to be aware of the bigger picture you are missing.

I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it.

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

You can't get any pictures from way back there.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

When you look at my pictures, you are seeing my life.

My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures.

When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.

I understand every piece of business in this league.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the character, the drive, the intentions. It's like a gift.

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.