My mother always said...If you don't like where you are…just picture where you wanna be.

I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had its roots in the soil.

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.