Quotes about "Creativity & Arts"

With poker, you have a resolution of the hand within a couple of minutes. Whereas, even if the thought process in investing is very much the same, you're looking at an outcome that could be 2, 3, 4, 5 years from when you make the original decision. And the mindset related to that is very different. ”

We take the traditional value investor's process and just flip it around a little bit. The traditional value investor asks 'Is this cheap?' and then 'Why is it cheap?' We start by identifying a reason something might be mispriced, and then if we find a reason why something is likely mispriced, then we make a determination whether it's cheap. ”

If you go in to vote, and you are no longer confident that the vote that you put in is the way it's going to get recorded because you don't know if the Russians or someone else have gotten into the voting system, that undercuts your trust in the democratic process. ”

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. ”

I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process. ”

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. ”

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression. ”

The creative people I admire seem to share many characteristics: A fierce restlessness. Healthy cynicism. A real world perspective. An ability to simplify. Restraint. Patience. A genuine balance of confidence and insecurity. And most importantly, humanity. ”

Creativity for the greater good is where I aspire to be, and I mean that on several levels: of course, working with worthy causes that need support but also not just contributing to the pollution of crap advertising. ”

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it? ”