"The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients."

-- Michael Mandelbaum

“I'm inspired by other people's creativity, just seeing things happen and wondering where they come from. That gets my mind going. Even if it's just wanting to know how something works.”
“There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.”
“If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to out work thousands in front of nobody.”

Source : FaceBook post by Damian Lillard from Mar 13, 2016
“Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.”
“Anyone who studies the contemporary phenomenon of global warming, or who fears the insidious impact that the smartphone is having on our lives, or who remembers that there are enough nuclear warheads on enough intercontinental ballistic missiles to destroy human civilization with some ease, understands that modern technology threatens, indeed is likely, to overwhelm us.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.”
“The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative Â– destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. We all need each other. This type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to the maturity of individual and group functioning.”
“Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.”

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