Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.

I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.

We can always find something to be thankful for and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

Trouble is kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.

You can't stop technology or science and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that hey this is interesting but maybe I could do something here too.

I have the instruments ideas technology computer techniques. We try to create or see something which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out.

When dealing in the technology it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.

Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie with the Internet and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry.

You can always improve on something the technology is different today but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.

You can get digital technology that almost is film quality and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded had the internal combustion engine had the technology and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.

I love technology and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter I text people I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other we're not connecting.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989 my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first I wanted to work in the theatre but there was something about the ambience of film especially American films that always attracted me.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

I was very studious too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

In my teens I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought 'Well if acting doesn't work for him he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately the acting worked out.