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"When the game starts, you don’t really look at uniforms."

Former professional baseball player Billy Butler, who was best known for his tenure with the Kansas City Royals, once made a wise observation regarding human connection and sportsmanship. Butler, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 28, 1982, spent his career as an outfielder and first bas…

"Ideas are nothing. They’re irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you’re doomed. The reality is if you don’t like one idea, I’ve got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can – great; I get to play a terrific game."

- Warren Spector

A well-known personality in the video game industry, Warren Spector is renowned for his perceptive opinions on innovation and creativity. His viewpoint highlights that until ideas are implemented, they are not intrinsically valuable. Spector asserts that having an idea by itself doesn't really chang…

"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."

- Colin Powell

This quotation, which is frequently ascribed to a prominent figure in military strategy and leadership, emphasizes a crucial reality regarding preparation and uncertainty. Colin Powell, a retired four-star general who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before becoming the Secretary of Sta…

"As a filmmaker and film student, I think it’s really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things."

- Catherine Hardwicke

American filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke is renowned for her work in both mainstream and independent cinema. In addition to the critically acclaimed film "Thirteen," she is the director of the wildly successful "Twilight" series, which revived vampire lore among a new generation of fans. Hardwicke fre…

"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood."

- Logan Pearsall Smith

Prominent British essayist Logan Pearsall Smith was renowned for his incisive observations about life and his witty wit. Between 1865 and 1946, when he was alive, Britain underwent tremendous social and cultural transformation. The relationship between generations and their interactions with one ano…

"The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesn’t obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation."

- Trudi Canavan

Renowned author Trudi Canavan is well-known for her fantasy books, such as the well-liked Black Magician series. She stresses the value of following logical rules even when writing about magical or fantastical elements in order to create complex and convincing worlds. This way of thinking is compara…

"People claim that no good actors came out of FTII after Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi. What they don’t know is that the acting course was closed for 26 years and reopened only in 2004."

- Rajkummar Rao

Renowned Indian actor Rajkummar Rao, who is well-known for his multifaceted roles, frequently discusses the difficulties that aspiring actors encounter. He brought attention to a widespread misunderstanding in the film industry during one of his interviews. People often talk about how, aside from Na…

"Have you considered that if you don’t make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?"

- Theodore Isaac Rubin

Renowned author and psychiatrist Theodore Isaac Rubin devoted a large portion of his life to researching interpersonal dynamics and human behavior. Among his many perceptive observations, he highlighted the significance of being active and visible in one's social group or community. Think of life as…

"People in the performing arts have a lot of other skills they don’t realize they can utilize, and part of what the Actors Fund program is there to do is wake their head up to realize there are other things they can do."

- Brian Stokes Mitchell

The accomplished singer and actor Brian Stokes Mitchell frequently discusses the adaptability and tenacity of people working in the performing arts. Performers, in his opinion, possess a multitude of abilities beyond what they usually employ on stage or screen. Actors and artists have a variety of s…

"Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it’s like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?"

- Chris Martin

Best known for being the lead singer of Coldplay, Chris Martin frequently considers how the music industry is evolving and how musicians are adjusting to new technologies. He makes a comment about how digital platforms have changed how people listen to music when he says that albums are an endangere…