Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.
Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at more than an intellectual level. You need to surprise people with something that disturbs their view that everything is perfect.
Don't be afraid to ask questions.
The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.
Ask questions; don't make assumptions.
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
I like things that take you by the hand and say, 'You think you know about this - you think you understand it - but there's so much that you don't.'
One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Seek out different perspectives.
If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.
I like to take people out of their element.
Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good.
