Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.
I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.
Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.
Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
