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
  • Deep
  • Mistake

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

  

  Diplo
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  • 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

• Comedy is harder, because if there's no laughs, it's pretty bad. But drama, if there's no reaction, you can say, 'Well, it's not their cup of tea. Maybe it's too heavy for the audience.'

  

  Fred Willard
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Comedy

• Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Done
  • Career
  • Success

• I knew if I were ever to leave 'Godspell,' which I loved so much, it would have to be for something really spectacular.

  

  Lindsay Mendez

• There is no question that the conditions we are seeing at the New Orleans convention center are deplorable. This is one of the worst disasters our nation has ever faced and the challenges to getting people out of harm's way are immeasurable. Some relief efforts, such as those at the convention center, are not moving as quickly or as smoothly as we would like.

  

  Hal Rogers
  • People
  • Question
  • Moving

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

  

  A. J. Jacobs