Quotes About Insight

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific.

My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.

I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live; he observes.

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. 'Live and learn,' we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about 'Live and teach.'

When I was shooting 'Okja,' that was my first time actually seeing a trailer for actors.

When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I'll hang out with B camera and watch what they're up to and ask questions because there's so much to learn about the medium.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as they draw their characters and their stories from what they experience around them. After all, that is what actors, filmmakers, journalists are trained to be: observers. And then they do something with their observations.

My mother is a trained psychologist.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

AIs are only as good as the data they are trained on.

What I'm trying to do is to get a glimpse into the secret state that surrounds us all the time but that we have not trained ourselves to see very well.

Every day in training you learn. I've been playing football for years, and I understand the game better with time.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.