People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another the mature mind seeks to follow through.

Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace

You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong.

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

Don't catch the bad and infectious attitudes of others.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

I'm beating down the Internet as we speak.