We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

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

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I like school and I like learning.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

I give the children education.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.