Allan Jacobs Quotes

Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

Allan Jacobs

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• Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Comfort
  • Comfortable

• I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Never
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • New
  • Demand
  • Streets

• I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Comfort
  • Preppy
  • Sweats

• I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Great
  • Find
  • Comfort

• Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Me
  • Rap

• I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Comfort

• We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Memories
  • Comfort
  • Protection

• Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Comfort
  • Familiar
  • Familiarity

• It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Book
  • Way
  • Christmas

• Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Business
  • Imagine
  • Streets

• The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Whether we love humanity or not, we must realize that we are part of it. My future depends entirely on the future of humanity, and so I am compelled to take care of humanity. That is why being compassionate is actually in my own best interest. And a symptom of my own peace of mind is that I can share comfort with others around me.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Future

• Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Situation
  • Crime
  • Streets

• I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Desire
  • Water
  • Pleasure

• I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Term
  • Comfort
  • Intimate

• The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

  

  William Osler
  • Men
  • Opportunity
  • Fall

• Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • World
  • Years
  • World Cup

• 'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Slave
  • Again
  • Anymore

• She loved to stand in the middle of a market square, or a park, or a beach and take in the smells and the sounds of a world that was completely new to her. she loved being an anonymous extra in a crowd scene, like some real-life where's waldo - a tiny face, wide-eyed with wonder, in a vast, ever-changing picture.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Wonder
  • Picture
  • Scene

• I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Me
  • Listen

• Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

  

  Allan Jacobs
  • Comfort
  • Streets
  • Moderate