Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism.

Art is a mad search for individualism.

Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist.

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

Donors dont give to institutions. They invest in ideas and people in whom they believe.

My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.

I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

There is a special bond between twin soul mates--unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly compatible.

Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

If you're climbing big routes that'll take you 16 hours, or, like, El Capitan, you have to take something like a big, robust sandwich. Climbing isn't like running or triathlons, where you have to constantly be eating blocks, gels, and pure sugar. Climbing is relatively slow, so you can pretty much eat anything and digest it as you climb.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then willpower is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's beside the point. It's simply that I just have to.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

Tell your friend that in his death a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes you also go. He will not be alone.

I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

Bridges are meant for burning when the people and memories they join arent the same.