I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday’s dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you’ve got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky’s the limit.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

If you judge, investigate.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

I call architecture frozen music.

Although I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.