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

• Make a list of goals for every year, tick them off & reward yourself when you achieve each one. Will give much discipline in your life.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Goals
  • Discipline
  • Reward

• It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Together
  • Angels

• The government currently has unfunded liabilities surpassing $66 trillion.57 That’s $66 trillion in expected entitlement payouts over the coming decades for which there is no known revenue source.58 If nothing is done to scale back the entitlement state, then, according to a report by nonpartisan financial analyst Mary Meeker, “By 2025, entitlements plus net interest payments will absorb all—yes, all—of” government revenues.59

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Government
  • Payouts

• We are certainly going to struggle to keep Drew.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Struggle
  • Drew
  • Certaily

• We can choose how we will participate in relationships, we have no choice about whether we will participate in them.

  

  Gary Smalley
  • Choose
  • Relationships
  • Participate

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

  

  A. J. Jacobs