Wayne Shorter Quotes
The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
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The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.
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I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.
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Today we are at a crossroads. The technology is available for two great options: The massive surveillance state, or the renewed freedom of a deeply-involved citizenry thinking independently and holding the government to the highest standards.
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Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.
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The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
