"I think we do need better training programs, we do need a way to get people from careers that are dead-end into new careers."

“Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support.”

“When you have a programmer-founded company it often gets really techy, if you have a producer or a business-person, it all really sets the flavor of the company, just the priorities and the way you deal with everything.”

Source : "Some Real Talk With Tim Schafer". "Kotaku Splitscreen" with Kirk Hamilton, Jason Schreier, www.kotaku.com.au. March 11, 2016.

“I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.”

“I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.”

“When you're a kid and get your first bike, you want to go somewhere you've never been before. That's like Pokémon. Everybody shares the same experience, but everybody wants to take it someplace else. And you can do that.”

Source : "The Ultimate Game Freak". Time Magazine Interview (Volume 154, No. 20), content.time.com. November 22, 1999.

“The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.”

“To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (1922). “Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings”