Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.

The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

Forget the secrets of success, use Cosmic Ordering instead.

Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it.

Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen.

I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

We've come to the point where we're no longer able to protect our national values. Where will it all end?

Communication is my thing.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.