It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

O, had I but followed the arts!

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of ‚Hitchhiker’s,‘ and I thought, ‚No, no.‘ I didn’t want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I’d already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.