I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.
I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.
America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!
Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
I never do impressions, but I probably should. People like that stuff.
I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.
I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.
I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
