“I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.” ThinkingBookInspiredMasonic Author:Paul Laffoley
“I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.” StudyBuiltArchitectureDiagrams Author:Paul Laffoley
“Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.” WayImaginationArchitectureDrawingDiagrams Author:Paul Laffoley
“I actually challenged The Theosophical Society on their concept of planes of reality. I said, "What you're doing is, you're stacking two-dimensional surfaces in three-space. And you are not going into any other dimensions at all." And they were furious, because they thought I was attacking Madame [Elena] Blavatsky.” SaidTwoRealityThreeSpaceConceptsSurfacePlanesDimensionsAttackingFuriousStacking Author:Paul Laffoley
“[The Theosophical Society] are ideologues in terms of the way they present the material. That's one of the reasons why, when they teach their courses, you only get a smidgen of stuff and you have to keep coming back every week. They won't do an overview. Because they're trying to bypass your conscious critical faculties by leaking the information slowly.” WayTryingReasonCoursesStuffTermTeachWeekInformationMaterialsConsciousCriticalReason WhyFacultyComing BackBypassIdeologuesOverview Author:Paul Laffoley
“I've kind of always done diagrams. It helped me think.” ThinkingKindDoneDiagrams Author:Paul Laffoley
“I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.” NeedsDoeDrinkCaffeine Author:Anna Kendrick
“I hear some guy teaches a course in diagrammatic thinking now; he's written books on it and stuff like that, and so it was kind of natural for me. Because it was a way in which words naturally fitted into something that's visual. I was always interested in doing that.” ThinkingWayKindBookGuyCoursesStuffNaturalTeachWrittenVisuals Author:Paul Laffoley
“I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to the store? And I was saying, Oh God, I want to learn something else. I wanted to learn to read and write better and do mathematics better. They were very much into Abstract Expressionism and that artsy stuff. And where most kids did what I call meaningless blobs, I could render perfectly.” WantWritingKidsWantedSchoolStuffMathematicsStoresAbstractCall MeMeaninglessMaryExpressionismAbstract Expressionism Author:Paul Laffoley
“I could do Superman, the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, this kind of stuff [at school]. And kids would give me their lunch money to have these things.” GivingKindKidsSchoolStuffWonderGive MeGreenLunchLanternsWonder WomanGreen Lantern Author:Paul Laffoley