Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what you're saying, and they can't know what you're saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting unless you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature. . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things abut a person, you can touch him at the core of his being.
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.
Competence is no longer scarce.
I'm not going to freeze my body. One life is enough for me. Some people take this gamble. That someone will be able to bring them back in the future. I'm not going to do it.
Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday.