Insight Quotes - Page 31

• Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

  Hilary Mantel

  Notebook, Moving, Half

  "Writer's rooms: Hilary Mantel" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. February 02, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

  David McCullough

  History, Who We Are, Way

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 13, 2012

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Real, Mean

  10 Copy quote

• If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Character, Culture

  4 Copy quote

• Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

  Anais Nin

  Truth, Reality, Expansion

  10 Copy quote

• I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Inspiration, Humor, Rabies

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  77 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ideas, People, Inventory

  9 Copy quote

• From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

  Paracelsus

  Dream, Sleep, Artist

  Paracelsus, George Rosen, Henry Ernest Sigerist, Clarice Lilian Temkin, Gregory Zilboorg (1941). “Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.

  Talcott Parsons

  Hands, Development, May

  Talcott Parsons, Peter Hamilton (1985). “Readings from Talcott Parsons”, Chichester [West Sussex] : E. Horwood ; London ; New York : Tavistock Publications

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

  Jane Pauley

  Nbc, People, Gardening

  "Jane Pauley tackles reinvention". The SecondAct Interview, blogs.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Inspiration, Humor, People

  8 Copy quote

• When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

  Josh Radnor

  Giving, Feels, Give Me

  "Josh Radnor & Elizabeth Olsen Are Okay With Being Earnest In ‘Liberal Arts’". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

  Agnes Repplier

  Funny, Patience, Humor

  11 Copy quote

• Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.

  Richard Roeper

  Book, Order, Columns

  "Meet a Critic: Richard Roeper". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. December 5, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

  Anne Roiphe

  Book, Giving, Humanity

  5 Copy quote

• When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspiration, Humor, People

  8 Copy quote

• Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

  Leo Rosten

  Communication, Humor, Play

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hippie, Mean, Mass Destruction

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.87, Psychology Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Would Be, Visionaries

  "Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013". www.vulture.com. February 9, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.

  Will Self

  Fall, Style, Fiction

  "Incidents along the road" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2009.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Jobs, Inspiration, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

  Patti Smith

  Intelligent, People, Being Positive

  "Patti Smith: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

  Zadie Smith

  Political, Novelists, Persons

  4 Copy quote

• The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

  Charles Stanley

  Religious, Hype, World

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.

  Charles Stanley

  Son, Grace, Tools

  Charles Stanley (2002). “The Gift of Forgiveness”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc

  24 Copy quote

  Show source