Every child who is born is the universe looking at itself with fresh eyes.
You have to be an outsider to write.
Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.
Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.
A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.
The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.
Letting a project sit and coming back to it is just as important as working on it all the time. You need to come back to it with fresh eyes.
I took my sister to an ITV event once and it was good to see everything through her eyes as I had perhaps become slightly jaded.
I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't.
Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.
I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to get a new perspective.
Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.
An outsider can see some things much better.
An outsider's point of view is always handy.
I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.
