quotes about Empirical Evidence

“Writing is like that. You have to have some basic creative spark, and then, if you have that, I feel like you can learn the production side of it. You can learn how to be a good producer. And I guess it does take a certain balance of those two skills in your head to be a successful showrunner.”

“There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.”

“Baby steps are the royal road to skill.”

“Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.”

Source : Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

“Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.”

“When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film.”

“I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.”

“In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.”

“Love does not come on schedule or on time. It comes unexpected, it comes unplanned. Do not shut your doors on love just because you've been hurt before. Let go of the need to be loved. Just be loving. Others will be able to see how loving and lovable you are when you express it”

“Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.”