Quote: Society

I have found that the best way to look into creativity and the creative process is by examining some of the world’s greatest scientists and from there working toward a theory of cognitive science relating to creative thinking. Seeking out what they have in common is a way of discovering how the mind works at its most creative.
— ARTHUR I. MILLER, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON
In all our lives, truly, our conviction about things changes as time goes on. The landscape shifts as you climb up a hill — the view changes.
—Tobias Wolff
The challenge today, in our generation, is to extend our notion of equality beyond Americans to all of humanity.
—Jacqueline Novogratz
The future of philanthropy is going to be how you spend your money every day, not the check you write at the end of the year.
—Robert Egger, 2011 Aspen Ideas
We need to get away from this crazy adulation of sports stars and rock stars and get back to people who do real art.
—John Hennessy
How can we channel the desire of ordinary people to do good into concrete strategies to trigger epidemic change?
—Jonathan Greenblatt
The essence of games is agency.
—Will Wright
Read. A lot.
—Sally Singer
Exploring how the line between image and reality has been erased: Americans live in the images we create. The fluidity of these changing images negates immutable truth and leaves us apathetic and unable to respond to a real crisis. As Yeats put it, “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of furious intensity.
— BARBARA GOLDSMITH
Read continually, live on another continent for a period of time, and learn to work with your hands.
—SEBASTIAN JUNGER