Bill Jay Quotes

Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.

Bill Jay

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• In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Today
  • Society
  • Stop

• I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Kind
  • Morality
  • Mortality

• Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Done
  • Film
  • Snow

• I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • School
  • My Life

• Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Development
  • Africa

• It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Country
  • Children

• I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • May
  • Think
  • Down

• There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Evil
  • Religion

• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Values

• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Live
  • Myself

• A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• 'Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,' asserted the Tin Man. 'Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Action

• Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Why
  • Style

• Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Judging

• I have seen motions of the air so furious that they have carried, mixed up in their course, the largest trees of the forest and whole roofs of great palaces, and I have seen the same fury bore a hole with a whirling movement digging out a gravel pit, and carrying gravel, sand and water more than half a mile through the air.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Great
  • Water

• I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • School
  • Future
  • Psychology

• What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • American
  • Interesting
  • Unique

• It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern language and black Southern language; it's hard to separate Southern language from black language.

  

  Kevin Young
  • American
  • Black
  • Interesting

• Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Interesting
  • Situation
  • Mathematics

• Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.

  

  Carol Loomis
  • World
  • Business
  • Management

• When I happen to be busy, I never give a moment's thought to the 'meaning' of anything, particularly of whatever it is I am doing. A proof that the secret of everything is in action and not abstention, that fatal cause of consciousness.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Action

• Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Interesting
  • Wisdom
  • Photographer