At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
I was what came to mind when there was blood on the floor.
How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
Be brave enough to live creatively.
There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.