Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.
But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?
When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
People think I'm some kind of prophet, but I'm not someone who gets my information from the ether. I've been given the coordinates about how things work.
Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.
My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.
I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.
If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
What I teach is a process of becoming a soulmaker. Soulmaking, as John Keats noted, is the work of creating our unique bliss. In this process, we liberate our creativity and our joy, our power and our purpose. We become imaginatively rich and spiritu...
I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit...
A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
I enjoy being recognized. I'll be very sad if people stop recognizing me. I'll be very sad if I'm not interviewed, because that's a very amazing process.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.
