“My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.” Quote by Nolan Bushnell
“I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.” PeopleThinkingLongIdeasHardHard WorkProjectsCrossesInnovationPerceiveDots Author:Nolan Bushnell
“I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.” ThinkingEndsPlayAbleAbilitySteps Author:Carrie Fisher
“My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.” FilmLinesMy Favorite Author:Carrie Fisher
“I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.” KnowsBookFallReadingLinesFalling In LoveTraditionalReading BooksTherapeutic Author:Carrie Fisher
“Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.” WantedActorsChanceHappenedYeahAccidentsGet BackChances Are Author:Carrie Fisher
“When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a very good way to find out how much you don't know because you learn specifically what you need to know that you don't know at the moment by writing.” KnowsWayNeedsWritingMomentsFocusVery GoodGood Way Author:David McCullough
“I write on the typewriter. I like it because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing the key and a letter comes up and is printed on a piece of paper. I can understand that.” WritingI CanFeelingsHandsPiecesKeysPaperLettersCome UpPrintedTypewriters Author:David McCullough
“Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may not think you're interested in may turn out to be infinitely fascinating because of the way it's taught.” ThinkingWayMayTurnsCoursesTeacherSubjectsTaughtFascinatingProfessorsGreat Teacher Author:David McCullough
“Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?” HumansWholeEarthLimitsAvailableClockRealmsReachingHuman ExperienceTime On EarthBiological ClockReaching Back Author:David McCullough
“To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.” Would BeLiteraturePleasurePaintingTheatreCheatRest Of Your LifePleasures Of Life Author:David McCullough