Fresh Insight Quotes

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

I look at this game from a different perspective.

I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.

Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

I didn't play baseball my entire life, so I do bring something a little more unique to the telecast and I get really excited about stuff that, maybe if I had been around baseball my whole life, I would just say, 'Come on. Everybody knows that. Its not a big deal.'

If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.

When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives it a fresh, new perspective-moving us through a wrenching gamut of emotions as she does so. A searing look at one of the worst periods in our history.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world.

I always think it's useful to get an outside opinion.

I've found it to be true that sometimes a stranger can give you advice that stays with you, utter truths the closest people in your life have trouble saying.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.

I realized I had something new to say, something that wasn't already out there.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

It's easy to see that two people might come up with that same idea.

It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.