Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.

Narrative is the beginning of recovery.

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.

when you believe inyourself, other people will believe inyou, too.

Effective managers proactively control their tasks and the expectations of their major stakeholders, which allows them to meet strategic goals rather than fight fires.

Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.

We risk life and limb and my princely good looks for a spoonful of sweet sock?

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.