"People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves."

“I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one still has to be thoughtful and mature about how you depict it and how you think it through. You have to think about the effects that violence has on audiences, and it's deployed so casually that I think it's losing its meaning. And when things like violence and murder and the dehumanization of other people lose their meaning, then we're really kind of in a place where we have to reexamine and take a hard look at ourselves.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com

“Maybe it's a form of overcompensation, but whenever I've toured, I've always needed a huge performance component.”

“My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense.”

“Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.”

“Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it.”

“A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.”

“I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.”

“It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.”

Source : John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.242, Manchester University Press