Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

There rolls the deep where grew the treeO earth, what changes hast thou seen!There where the long street roars hath been.The stillness of the central sea.

This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.

Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.