Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

If I change my name again y'all can have me certified as crazy. Alright?

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

Richard Crossman ... has a gift, which is useful to teaching but fatal to politics, uncontrolled imagination. There is no side of an argument that he cannot see, and he can well argue that black is white. Once his mind starts working it runs away with him, and he is able to persuade himself of the truth of what he wants to hear. At the same time, with the arrogance of the intellectual, he suggests that anyone who disagrees with him is little more than an idiot.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

My life is crazy sometimes.

If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

I probably am. I think Paul Giamatti also said in an interview that I was "f--king crazy." I'm flattered by that. I want to be that guy who's nuts who makes people think.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

In my acting class there was this acting exercise going on, and I remember asking a buddy, "Do you ever do this at your apartment when no one's home? Do you ever act out these hypothetical moments?" And he goes, "No, Lizzie, because that's called crazy." Whatever, I was 20 and doing it so who cares.

I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

I believe that if you go and see a film you should have to sort of invest something yourself and you have to do a little bit of the work as an audience member, so when you leave the cinema you should be having those conversations either with yourself - if you're crazy like me- or with friends afterwards.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

Our time on Earth is already short enough. For me, it's like every single day I try to be as happy as I can. It's crazy to think about. We never have enough time. That's always the thing. We always want to do more. So it's about being able to spend time on the things that are most important to you. Life is a lot easier that way, and obviously life is pretty difficult a lot of the time.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

It is a natural stronghold for them—they can infest this maze of iron and water like a horde of starving cockroaches, and they’ll be just as hard to anticipate and to kill in such close quarters.” “Wow,” Shane said. “You really know how to drum up team spirit. Did you print up Team Total Fail jerseys, too?” Myrnin gave him an entirely crazy smile. “Would you be surprised if I had?

Innovation doesn't come from the big company. It never has and never will. Innovation is something new that looks crazy at first glance. It comes from the 19-year-olds and the start-ups that no one's heard of.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.