Insightful Perception Quotes

Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.

I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

Audiences are savvy. You can never go wrong assuming the best of them.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.

I look at 'Love Child' and it's as if it was written by someone else - someone who knew what they were doing.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

I think the best thing about my game is my vision. I see things happen before they do.

… looking and not seeing things was a great sin.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.

Articulateness is not the only way that intelligence manifests itself.