A Quote by Jeff Buckley
I don't see myself in an ivory tower.
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I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist - a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself.
I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.
I know everybody. I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people.
I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.
We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.
Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.
Socrates was a great walker. They say he was a fiend for exercise. He was absolutely not shut away in some ivory tower somewhere.
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