Carly Fiorina Quotes

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Apollo was designed not to conquer enemies but to conquer ignorance.

I believe with unshakable faith that science and peace will yet triumph over ignorance and war, and that the peoples of the world will seek knowledge, not to destroy but to create.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

Just to get the basic fundamentals and empathy - I think that's the most important thing to bring to it if you've acted in the past and are now a director: the empathy.

I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least provide understanding. In other words, doing something I understand and that everyone understands. This natural desire for communication is also found in other domains, like reading and discourse, etc. I also hate repeating myself; it gives me no pleasure whatsoever. Once I've understood something, I need to start off on new ground.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something a beloved knows that they themselves do not know; or they discover a common rare knowledge; or they can supply knowledge to someone who's lacking. Hasn't everyone found a strange ignorance in someone beguiling? . . .Nowadays, trendy librarians, wanting to be important, say, Knowledge is power. I know better. Knowledge is love.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Humor gives presidents the chance to be seen as warm, relaxed persons. Humor reaches out and puts its arm around the listener and says, 'I am one of you, I understand,' and implicitly it promises, 'I will do something about your problems.'