"Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it."

“Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.”

Source : "Don’t Give More — Give in a Way that Matters More" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

“When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.”

“Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of the plant or animal we realize what can and what cannot be done towards modification or improvement.”

“There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.”

“From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.”

“It was hard to leave my school. I've been going to the same school since kindergarden.”

“I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.”

Source : "The story of Gucci" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2011.

“Nowadays, it is fashionable for agents to be out. When you call them, they're always "out." It's in, you see, to be out. If they're in, they're out. So, they're always out. That way, they'll be in.”