I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain..

Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively..

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African..

The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Coll….

Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigge….

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas….

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly.

Are you making life or is life making you?.

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new id….

When Cate Blanchett starts directing, it's over for all of us..

Thank ye." “For what?" “For bein’ who ye are." Gabby chuckled and shook her head, saying, “And who else could I be?.

The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch wi….

I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas.

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting..

I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than n….

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that ….

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no o….

When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar, you start reverting back to that state of mind where you're having conversations with yo….

As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created..

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made tho….

Investors aren't willing to accept the idea that we're in an era of lower returns..