Josh Gondelman Quotes

I value niceness. But now, as a grown person, I value goodness above that. Because niceness doesn't change anything, and goodness changes things.

Josh Gondelman

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• Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Change

• Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Changes

• Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Work
  • Changes
  • Salvation

• I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Work
  • Moment
  • Goodness

• Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Knowledge
  • Security
  • Changes

• We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • World
  • Change
  • Period

• Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies and other businesses a method of hedging against adverse price changes. Instead, they've become just another Wall Street plaything.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Wall
  • Changes
  • Street

• The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • True
  • Interesting

• So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Wearing

• That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Changes
  • Ego
  • Self

• I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Myself

• It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Growing
  • Best
  • Child

• Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Business
  • Changes
  • Now

• When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Control
  • Single
  • Best

• It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Great
  • True
  • Culture

• I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Think
  • Impossible
  • Changes

• I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Changes

• Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Light
  • Changes
  • Atmosphere

• I called Expo Hall to pick out dates in two to three weeks' time, because it sounds like we may do this again. We want to get a handle on how successful it was and what changes need to be made to the process.

  

  Jason Cooper The Cure
  • Successful
  • Process
  • Changes

• Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Best

• There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

  

  George Eliot
  • Character
  • Dramas
  • Collisions

• I value niceness. But now, as a grown person, I value goodness above that. Because niceness doesn't change anything, and goodness changes things.

  

  Josh Gondelman
  • Changes
  • Goodness
  • Niceness