M.T. Bass Quotes

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Design is thinking made visual.

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.

Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

Have you ever thought that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, and in turn reject radical ideas which threaten institutions?

I often think that presentations are more difficult than the work itself.

I was always the Southern gentleman.

How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain.

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

Whether or not you believe in God, you can probably sign on to the idea that being kind to others is divine. Just remember to include yourself in that circle of kindness.

There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.

Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

What would people look like if we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time?

Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?

The idea of having new perspectives on our planet, and actually being able to get that message out, gets me out of bed every day with a spring in my step.

I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple.

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs

I've always dreamed of having a large family.

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

The key is to do your own work.

Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.

We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation.

I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.