I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite. . . well, intense about driving other people.
Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.
Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.
Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe. . . Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the. . . public.
To get a person's real opinion, ask what she thinks everyone else believes. . . If people truly hold a particular belief, they are more likely to think that others agree or have had similar experiences. [People] tend to assume that other people have had life histories at least somewhat similar to their own. When we talk about other people, we are often talking about ourselves, whether we know it ourselves.
The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.
Apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953. . . The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass. . . Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down.
Never doubt or question the power of love or one woman with a shovel.
Enlightened teachers get all sorts of assignments. Sometimes we end up in the higher astral; sometimes we end up in the realm of pure spirit; sometimes we end up in the desire realms. Sometimes we go down to the lower astral to teach, you don't really teach there, you just sort of are, because everybody is confused.
There is nothing wrong with a big bet, if a big bet is a good bet.
It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.