"The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else - at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream."

-- Paul MacCready

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“Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.”

Source : "Fiske WordPower: The Exclusive System to Learn, Not Just Memorize, Essential Words". Book by Edward Fiske et al., 2006.
“When everything seems to fall apart..that's when everything new you prayed for has room to enter your life..”
“Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.”
“I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.”
“I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.”
“The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.”
“I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.”

Source : CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2007.
“In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity.”

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