A. J. Jacobs Quotes

I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.

A. J. Jacobs

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• I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Winning
  • Dreams
  • Awards

• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • You

• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Important
  • Help
  • Day

• Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Music
  • Me
  • Meditation

• Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Challenge
  • Everything

• I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Reading
  • Loved

• I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Start
  • First
  • Building

• Everything you rejected and pushed aside-take it up again.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Up

• But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

  

  Jane Austen
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!-But time goes on, and will, unheeding,Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn,And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Time
  • True
  • Eyes

• O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • Soul
  • Forever

• Norm Lewis, who plays Jake in 'Side Show,' and I had a song together in 'Tommy,' and I understudied Mrs. Walker.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Together
  • Song

• I kind of prefer bouncing back and forth between theater and films. It's like having the best of both worlds, both very different experiences.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Different

• True atonement isn't the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all: not making the same stupid mistake again.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • True
  • Mistake
  • Deep

• If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.

  

  Diplo
  • People
  • Music

• If I want to know how I'm doing at work, I don't wait for a pat on the back; I ask the people who will give me a clear, objective opinion. When I need a real, arms-wrapped-around-me hug, I go to someone who does that. I stopped getting disappointed by my expectations from non-huggers.

  

  Chandra Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard one. I'm not saying it is as hard as working in a coal mine, but it is still difficult in a different way. Sometimes you have to go through very strong emotional journeys and then come back to yourself. And that can be difficult to control.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Different
  • Job
  • Strong

• Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema or online is because we haven't found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we're here. But I've learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves.

  

  Jerome Jarre
  • Life
  • Why
  • Purpose

• Computer scientists would call this a ping attack or a “denial of service attack: give a system an overwhelming number of trivial things to do, and the important things get lost in the chaos.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Chaos
  • Attack
  • Computer scientists

• The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Alone

• Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

  

  Sean Paul
  • Remember
  • Fighting

• When you are mad at yourself, you are mad at everybody.

  

  Nicole Sullivan
  • Yourself
  • Mad
  • Everybody

• I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.

  

  A. J. Jacobs