John Locke Quotes
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
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Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
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The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion- very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check. However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu.
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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
