My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.
Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.
Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.
The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.
First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.
In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.
I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.