You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.
But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.
Rifangi hanya menawarkan sehelai pembalut putih yang steril, tapi manusia bukan cetakan tunggal mumi Adam di atas bumi, yang ditaruh dalam gelas, tanpa sejarah, tanpa ketelanjuran kebudayaan.
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down.
Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.
I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.
Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't. There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly.
As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
