There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we’ve been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day. Malcolm Gladwell Read Quote
Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity – that’s a mistake. Randy Pausch Read Quote
Everybody doesn’t have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to. Matt Groening Read Quote
It says something very deep about humans and our society, something very good about us, that we’ve invested our time and treasure in building a machine that can fly across three billion miles of space to explore the Pluto system. Alan Stern Read Quote
I’ve never had my brows done – I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that’s how I learned. Emmy Rossum Read Quote
The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different. Elizabeth Peyton Read Quote
To be a director, you have to think you’re the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagined that you have to think deep down that you want to be Martin Scorsese or you want to be P.T. Anderson. Like, am I as good as those guys? Absolutely not. I feel like I keep learning, and I feel like I keep getting better. Jonathan Levine Read Quote
I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the ‘three Bobs:’ Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower. Dale T. Mortensen Read Quote
When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring – and where the sea might deposit you – until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure. Andrew O'Hagan Read Quote
