Joe Morton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
-
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
-
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
-
Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
-
You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.
-
When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.
-
When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
-
Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.
-
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
-
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
-
If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
-
I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
-
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
-
I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.
-
I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
-
Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.
-
Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.
-
What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
-
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
-
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
-
What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?
-
My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
-
I think many villains have the burden of not being very human.
