I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

I call architecture frozen music.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Always do whatever’s next.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

All art is but imitation of nature.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.