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Green burial isn't about doing extra things. It's about what not to do.


Joshua Slocum

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EDMOND ABOUT It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the coun...
EDMOND ABOUT I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians,...
EDMOND ABOUT I fight fairly, and in good faith.
EDMOND ABOUT Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
EDMOND ABOUT Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of noth...
EDMOND ABOUT Leadership is about getting things done, not talking about doing things.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE What books can you read to learn about this part of your life? What people do you need to confide in...
JOSH HATCHER I know what you're doing, though."

"I'm glad somebody knows what I'm about, because I see...
GRACE BURROWES Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for ...
ANONYMOUS The opposite of war isnt peace its creation
JONATHAN LARSON Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
JAMES A. MICHENER What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk abou...
SALMAN RUSHDIE It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.
PAUL WALKER Disability is not what we see or appear, it is all about not doing what one really wanted to do...
SEAL THE SMILE It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.
JOYCE MEYER Success isn't about what you are willing to do. It's about what you actually end up doing.
DAN WALDSCHMIDT Freshness is not what I'm worried about. It's the two to three extra days to sell it.
BILLY LEONARD Often unless there is a specific problem they have to a possible STD, they do not bring it up, ... T...
JAMES ALLEN Church isnt where you meet. Church isnt a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Ch...
BRIDGET WILLARD Efficiency is about doing things right. Effectiveness is about doing the right things.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN These things are killing us. Think about what you're doing.
DORI FREELAIN It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going...
JOHN R. AMOS It's not about what they taught, its about what you learnt.
SUPERNA BATHEJA Success is not about making more money all the time. It is about living your life daily doing what y...
LORRIN L. LEE Don't ever think about what other people think about you,since its like someone doing someone else's...
SIDDHARTH DUBEY It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.
PAUL WALKER It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about.
STEPHEN RICHARDS We're doing it wrong, absolutely wrong! Miss Universe should be about Space Exploration, Miss World ...
MANASA RAO There's not much really to do in a hospital, but I worked a little bit, thought a lot about life and...
DOUG SHORE Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I...
CORY LIDLE My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Unconditional love of self isnt forced...its felt and flows naturally
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evi...
G. K. CHESTERTON An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able t...
WILLIAM FEATHER Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you d...
DEBORAH DAY People keeps on complaining, but they're not doing anything about the things that they're complainin...
JAYSON ENGAY We should feel good about what we are doing, not good about what has happened.
LEONARD SANDRIDGE I've heard a lot of talk about a station in Slocum. If there were a perfect plan for the Zaccaria fa...
MARK ZACCARIA If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out.
JEFFREY FRY I know it may seem small and insignificant but its not about what it is, its about what it can becom...
OLASOT You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN They'd say, 'I like what you're doing about property taxes, but let's do something about gas,'
DAVID MCINTOSH Do we have the green light here? As far as green lights go, it's about as green as you can get.
RAJA BELL Magic is not doing the impossible. It's about doing what seems impossible.
MANDAR GOGATE The idea is to get kids to think about not only what they are doing in high school but what they wil...
DOUG FOX Q: But what do you think that the Bible, itself, says? Don't you know how it was arrived at?
A:...
SCOPES TRIAL Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same. Doing the easiest thing is not always ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA That's something that we were talking about doing anyway. This will provide people with something ex...
MACK BRADLEY Our D-linemen are pretty good about doing what they have to do.
JOSH LAZARO I'm not thinking about other teams or what people think about what we're doing, ... I'm just trying ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never ...
DAKOTA FANNING Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?
ROBERT TOWNSEND I'm not thinking about it. I'm not at the point where I'm doing anything about thinking what I have ...
GARRET ANDERSON The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Do what you love doing.
JULIANNA MARGULIES It's not about technology, it's about how much you communicate with your kids about what they are do...
PARRY AFTAB It's not about what you're going to say, but it's about what you're going to do about it.
JAYSON ENGAY ... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to peo...
FRANK CROWNINSHIELD One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people we...
HERBIE HANCOCK Happiness is not about what you do, it's about how you do what you do.
ROEL VAN SLEEUWEN It's all about keeping a cool head and not doing any strange things.
BOUWE BEKKING It's not about what I've done, It's about what I am going to do
GRANT KORGAN We're not concerned with what those people think about what we're doing.
DEREK LOOMIS do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolívar was talking about ...
JOHN GREEN I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told...
ADELE Its not about money, its about accountability,
ERIC LEWIS This is not about individuals keeping their jobs but rather about finding better ways of doing thing...
BARBARA STEWART I'll decide the good things, the bad things about the spring and figure out a final decision about w...
KIRBY FREEMAN The difficult way to live is to not do a thing about what pisses us off, and not accept it either…...
JOHN C. PARKIN You're going to need those extra guys to step up. That's what a team's all about.
ALEXANDER JOHNSON Don't try to do it all on your own. Tell someone about what you're doing.
RENE BRITT Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things th...
FEAR MICHAEL GRANT What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirte...
DIANE DUANE We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about thi...
BILLY AL BENGSTON I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was ...
JOSHUA SLOCUM I knew now that I had put a world behind me, and that I was opening out another world ahead. I had p...
JOSHUA SLOCUM I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895, was f...
JOSHUA SLOCUM I grasped her gunwale and held on as she turned bottom up, for I suddenly remembered that I could no...
JOSHUA SLOCUM ...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, "Land lies there.
JOSHUA SLOCUM Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.
JOSHUA SLOCUM And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or ...
JOSHUA SLOCUM My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was st...
JOSHUA SLOCUM It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man h...
JOSHUA SLOCUM Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given ...
JOSHUA SLOCUM Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to...
JOSHUA SLOCUM Most people choose a funeral home for all the wrong reasons: It's close to their house, or it has se...
JOSHUA SLOCUM To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's ...
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JOSHUA SLOCUM Obviously, I wasn't trying to throw at his head.
BRIAN SLOCUM There's a first for everything.
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BRIAN SLOCUM We differ from many designers, in that we both have a love of making furniture. There's no gap betwe...
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TYSON SLOCUM America's natural gas companies have been fined over two-billion dollars in the last three years for...
TYSON SLOCUM It's never about purse with me. It all about how I perform on certain golf courses. I pick the cours...
HEATH SLOCUM It's always kind of fun to play a course where you can shoot some low numbers.
HEATH SLOCUM It makes for an interesting weekend. You feel like there's going to be somebody shooting a really go...
HEATH SLOCUM Depth is a real concern. Injuries are a concern because we don't have the numbers to back it up. I'l...
JOE SLOCUM All the games were close. Our losses were 7-0, games like that.
JOE SLOCUM (Cox) is not real big but he is quick and he will put a helmet on you.
JOE SLOCUM Shane is a pretty tough runner. I have played eighth-graders before and some of them can do it (play...
JOE SLOCUM I think we've been doing it for a while now that I can sort of imagine her voice in my head when I'm...
MATT SLOCUM Oil companies are exploiting a tight supply-demand situation. They are piling on, making a bad situa...
TYSON SLOCUM Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an...
JOSHUA FOER If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I'd go crazy with people that are saying negative ...
JOSHUA BELL You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there's ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of...
JOSHUA FOER All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences...
JOSHUA REYNOLDS Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called...
JOSHUA FOER Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be pa...
JOSHUA COHEN For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indu...
ANTHONY JOSHUA We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our ...
JOSHUA FOER I'll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I'll have an hour just resting, to ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall ...
JOSHUA FOER I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents ...
JOSHUA MALINA I used to drink. I didn't like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd M...
ANTHONY JOSHUA I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mum...
ANTHONY JOSHUA I think it's our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the real...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird.
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a lon...
JOSHUA FOER I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.
JOSHUA BELL A Woman's Question

Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
Ever made by t...
JOSHUA HARRIS The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as...
JOSHUA HARRIS Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear.
JOSHUA WISENBAKER The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed a...
JOSHUA RENOLDS All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet.
JOSHUA NKOMO The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA There's so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don't a...
ANTHONY JOSHUA The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literatur...
JOSHUA COHEN The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it...
JOSHUA BELL All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth k...
JOSHUA FOER Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scienti...
JOSHUA BELL Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life exper...
JOSHUA FOER In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do tha...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Cardio is a nice way to start the morning, man. Whether you sit on the bike for half an hour or thro...
ANTHONY JOSHUA Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the s...
JOSHUA FOER The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resi...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.
JOSHUA BELL In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr...
JOSHUA COHEN By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
JOSHUA LEDERBERG Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the worl...
ANTHONY JOSHUA Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER I am nice, yeah. I'm cool. But I'm no push-over. And if someone gets one over on me, they...
ANTHONY JOSHUA During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By...
JOSHUA FOER If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.
JOSHUA FOER What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.
JOSHUA FOER Enough is as good as a feast.
JOSHUA SYLVESTER Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit...
ANTHONY JOSHUA The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to giv...
ANTHONY JOSHUA Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writin...
JOSHUA FOER 'The Look of Silence' is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. ...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was thi...
JOSHUA COHEN In 1987, I had no idea who Steven Isserlis was. We met at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South ...
JOSHUA BELL I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning ...
JOSHUA COHEN We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons wh...
JOSHUA BELL Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious me...
JOSHUA FOER We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high m...
JOSHUA BELL I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way,...
JOSHUA ROMAN Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with t...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN Am I feminist? I don't know. I'm not really sure what that is. I am all up for equality to a...
ANTHONY JOSHUA I don't have a strict diet; I keep it simple. I try to eat fish, meat, veg and carbs - potatoes ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer n...
JOSHUA PRAGER They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing...
JOSHUA FERRIS A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG There is a short window at the beginning of one's professional life, when it is comparatively ea...
JOSHUA FOER Prayer is a form of meditation, isn't it? It's laws of attraction: whatever you put out into...
ANTHONY JOSHUA In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre m...
JOSHUA LEONARD We donate time, expertise, and resources to a wide array of charitable and nonprofit organizations a...
JOSHUA BEKENSTEIN The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes...
JOSHUA FOER It's not so much about conquering Madison Square Garden or Vegas. The opponents who I fight will...
ANTHONY JOSHUA With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in...
JOSHUA FOER I first read Dostoyevsky when I was 14 years old and was entranced. Dostoyevsky truly is a writer fo...
JOSHUA COHEN From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock your...
ANTHONY JOSHUA I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good...
JOSHUA BELL I do basically what a conductor does with a baton, except I also play along with the orchestra. So I...
JOSHUA BELL I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don'...
JOSHUA BELL I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I ha...
ANTHONY JOSHUA I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fin...
JOSHUA FERRIS If you film a little boy going to school, the big event in that boy's day and all the classmates...
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JOSHUA BELL It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the conf...
ANTHONY JOSHUA I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovieti...
JOSHUA COHEN I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn&#...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will d...
JOSHUA LEDERBERG Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.
JOSHUA KAI Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languag...
JOSHUA FOER The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That&#...
JOSHUA BELL They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose lif...
JOSHUA SYLVESTER Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!
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JOSHUA BELL If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come ...
JOSHUA FOER If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry ...
JOSHUA REYNOLDS 'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 're...
JOSHUA COHEN I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is i...
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JOSHUA BELL I'm happy if my music is being downloaded, whether it's legally or illegally.
JOSHUA BELL After I left that, I wanted to continue programming films, so I started the Jewish film festival.
JOSHUA ABBEY All are unique films that you will not likely see anywhere else.
JOSHUA ABBEY It gives them an incentive to market the film aggressively to their constituents. Then they can use ...
JOSHUA ABBEY The film created a huge buzz at Cannes. Few people realize that Natalie Portman is Jewish and that s...
JOSHUA ABBEY I culled the cream of the crop.
JOSHUA ABBEY I use Facebook quite a lot to keep up with my friends, although I had to delete 'Words With Frie...
JOSHUA BELL Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic proce...
JOSHUA FOER A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS When sense runs out, one shall follow.
JOSHUA MONTENEGRO When luck runs out, sense runs in.
JOSHUA MONTENEGRO The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed ...
JOSHUA RENOLDS We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then i...
JOSHUA SCHACHTER Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing...
JOSHUA SCHACHTER When you are caught with a big shot, you don't really feel it. It's like being in a car cras...
ANTHONY JOSHUA I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, m...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring an...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Even when there is only a 1% chance for success, you have to put in 110% of the work to make that la...
JOSHUA LI To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman...
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JOSHUA FOER The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something....
JOSHUA FOER We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but th...
JOSHUA FOER I love the outdoor festival feeling.
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ANTHONY JOSHUA I happen to love Saint-Saens in general. I think he's a brilliant composer and sometimes underra...
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JOSHUA FOER Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it...
JOSHUA FOER No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.
JOSHUA BELL This (year) is more about walking through the catacombs where the victims are. You get to see more o...
JOSHUA REALE Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on...
JOSHUA BELL I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people ...
JOSHUA JACKSON Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, no...
ANTHONY JOSHUA Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsessi...
ANTHONY JOSHUA Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been ...
JOSHUA REYNOLDS In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.
JOSHUA WAITZKIN Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had bee...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our coll...
JOSHUA FOER My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right ...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have e...
JOSHUA BELL If all they do is pick out a couple of MPs to slice and dice ... that is not going to be what is nee...
JOSHUA DRATEL Video games spark the imagination, empower the mind, and take you to the place where you have always...
JOSHUA CLARKE We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in w...
JOSHUA FOER I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise ...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in t...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actual...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER He stops walking and grasps both of my hands to stop me. He narrows his eyes at me. "You’ve never ...
ISABELLE JOSHUA A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is n...
JOSHUA FERRIS As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The ...
JOSHUA BELL I know how to deal with jet lag, and I know just how much rest I need and when I need to take naps. ...
JOSHUA BELL I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and...
JOSHUA FERRIS Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a ve...
JOSHUA BELL People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's cra...
JOSHUA SASSE One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything. Sometimes it seems to be hiding b...
JOSHUA KADISON Like [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak, Assad will be smirking at U.S. discomfiture as Washington s...
JOSHUA LANDIS I think you can appreciate different interpretations. Art is not a contest. I can even appreciate he...
JOSHUA BELL Laughing is a necessity of life.
JOSHUA CLARKE The thing I hate the most, is hate itself.
JOSHUA CLARKE There is one problem with the entire concept of time. There is so little of it.
JOSHUA CLARKE Without this, I'd be either in jail or dead. It is real motivating.
JOSHUA YOUNG I don't have a preferred religion - I'd have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such i...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN Every time I get an autograph, I feel like I'm taking home a little piece of that star. What dri...
JOSHUA MORROW ‎True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before t...
JOSHUA HARRIS It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness d...
JOSHUA FERRIS Music is such an incredible tool for kids in general. They learn discipline; they learn how to expre...
JOSHUA BELL