One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat other….

Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? W….

The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting..

You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage wi….

I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes..

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. If y….

The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it..

She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem when I was about….

I think humor is often a very powerful tool to be able to express ideas that are heavy..

Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, ….

We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American ….

I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage,….

If you are trying to sell someone your idea and you can't even define it to yourself, then that is a problem..

Eventually, I succeeded in everything..

On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding..

Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitmen….

People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill….

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas..

That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to remind them? People keep….

More is not necessarily better. BETTER IS BETTER..

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork..