"It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor."

“A powerful force drives the world toward a converging commonality, and that force is technology. … Almost everyone everywhere wants all the things they have heard about, seen, or experienced via the new technologies.”

“And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.”

“Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.”

“Culturally intelligent innovation begins with changing our impulse from Why can't you see it like I do? to Help me see what I might be missing!”

Source : David Livermore (2016). “Driven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through Diversity”, p.236, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

“It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.”

Source : "Paul Giamatti: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.

“I don't like precious things; I don't spend thousands of dollars on jewellery for myself. I like going into a junk store and finding something for five dollars. That's my style.”

“Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.”

“For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.”