Steven Johnson (Steven Berlin Johnson) Quotes

Chance favors the connected mind.

Steven Johnson

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• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.

  

  Edmund White
  • God
  • Story
  • Feathers

• I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Kids
  • Never
  • Now

• I've just always been a bit of a dork.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Always
  • Just
  • Dork

• If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Remember
  • Law
  • Fall

• I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Work
  • Giving

• Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Music
  • God
  • Country

• Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Process

• When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Real
  • School
  • She

• The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

  

  Louis Agassiz
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Time
  • Water
  • Air

• Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are ridiculous-looking - especially her. They're so strange and charismatic and weird. It's pretty hard to take your eyes off them.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Pretty
  • Eyes
  • Weird

• Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable, fact-based, in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable, to whip up a lot of emotion in public, which can lead to government overreach, fear, suspicions, and prejudice.

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Responsibility

• I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I wanted to be ultimately.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Good

• I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • World
  • Success
  • Goals

• If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

  

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

• I definitely don't ever see a time I want to retire. Ever.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • Time

• I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • Opportunity
  • Luck

• It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Light
  • Air
  • Photograph

• You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Long
  • Goal
  • Enough

• The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Energy

• I do hope to inspire, I mean I live off inspiration and its the force that keeps me working, that keeps me creating.

  

  Andrea Suarez Paz
  • Inspiration
  • Working
  • Creating

• Chance favors the connected mind.

  

  Steven Johnson
  • Mind
  • Chance
  • Connected