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Quotes about Insight

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.
— Paul Allen
For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.
— Jonathan Levine
I've never directed, but it must be humbling.
— Holly Hunter
Judge the spirit of the prophecy before you judge the truth of the word.
— Graham Cooke
I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.
— Graham Greene
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.
— Graham Greene
A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced
— Graham Greene
If ash-trays could speak, sir.' 'Indeed, yes.
— Graham Greene
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.
— Graham Greene
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see—every scrap
— Graham Greene
The more we know the more we love.
— Graham Greene
in a flash of insight he became aware of the innumerable necessary evils of which life for her was made up.
— Graham Greene