I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.
In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.
The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.
Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" is the only personal development book that does not mention it.
Why do I go outside at one a.m. and search the stars as though I'd numbered them?
Never sit back and wait for a opportunity to find you, get up and search for one, it exists find it!
Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey--searching for Jesus.
I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.
But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.
This is the time of myths, Orphan. They are the cables that run under the floors and power the world, the conduits of unseen currents, the steam that powers the great engines of the earth.
My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.
How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?
How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to from falling in love?
Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.
Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.
Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.
And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake.
I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammer to solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.
