Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.
Everything in life should be approached as a project. Every project can be broken down into just three things: Action Steps, Backburner Items, and References.
Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.
Discovery hapens in the overlap of difference communities. . . in the clashes of difference.
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic
Today never feels like it will be history, but it will. And more likely than not, you will look back and realize that you should have known.
Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.
I'm comfortable and confident about the future.
So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.
I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years. . . . I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.