To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
If you are willing to be a self-learner, you will develop yourself.
If you have knowledge, then use it for educating not for degrading.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much.
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people say: 'Well we're not really in love but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.
You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.
Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.
Ninety percent of my material is made on stage, but I feel like you're missing something by abandoning sitting down to write entirely.
