The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

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.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

Control is the source of strategic power.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

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.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

All art is but imitation of nature.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It’s a physical experience.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

I’m a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don’t agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

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.

I’m still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

When you want a thing done, ‚Don’t do it yourself‘ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.