I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?

The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.

I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.

You need to make certain decisions to expand your market.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.

I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.

I don't want to be cliched, but Buckingham Palace is beautiful, and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me. I've always wanted to see those.

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

One must learn how to be black in America.

I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.

It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.

I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.