Steve Jobs // "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask a creative person how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something...they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people."
Rene Magritte // "The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown...since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."
Tennessee Williams // "I don't want realism. I want magic...I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be the truth."
Diane Arbus // "If you scrutinize reality closely enough...if in some way you really, really get to it...it becomes fantastic."
Tony Hawk // "Big decisions...have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert."
Winston Churchill // "We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm."
Rick Rubin // "I never decide if an idea is good or bad until I try it. So much of what gets in the way of things is thinking that we know. And the more that we can remove any baggage we're carrying with us, and just be in the moment, use our ears, and pay attention to what's happening, and just listen to the inner voice that directs us, the better."
Lauren Bacall // "I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don’t believe in that."
Dwight Eisenhower // "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
Charles Lindbergh // "In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced success with modesty, science with simplicity...their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world."
Elizabeth Taylor // James Dean
Michel Foucault // You see that's why I really work like a dog, and I worked like a dog all my life. I'm not interested in the academic status of what I am doing because my problem is my own transformation. That's the reason...when people say: "Well, you thought this a few years ago and now you say something else," my answer is: "Well, do you think I have worked like that all those years to say the same thing and not be changed?"