Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it. . . which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be.
Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow, or a book, or a picture, he has a moral right to that particular wheelbarrow, or book, or picture, but no right to ask that others be prevented from making similar things. Such a prohibition, though given for the purpose of stimulating discovery and invention, really in the long run operates as a check upon them.
When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine.
There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.
Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.
Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.
I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of our liberties.
Brexit for me was really interesting because I was in the heart of Yorkshire, which is a "leave" area. It was quite odd actually, a real deep sense of unease. You felt very odd for your country. You have lots of people that are angry. It's a very physical and public stand that these people are making.
. . . the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven.
For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.
You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.
I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
Making money isn't hard in itself. . . What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.
Knowledge is the key to making a difference.
When you make a business you're making a little world.
Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom.
I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G. I. Joes and making up adventures for them.
When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because there is so much already in what you are making, you don't need to do very much. You just need to do a little bit, and that is a lot.
Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.