A.J. Russell Quotes

I think what's actually happened is print media is becoming obsolete, and this is like the floundering corpse of a dying media. It is just twitching.

You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.

I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew how it works.

Its really important to understand the difference between sentience and consciousness, which are important for human beings.

O reputation! dearer far than life.

Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.

There are as many reasons why and ways to fish as there are people who do it.

Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!

What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born.

Those who love are but one step from heaven.

New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.

There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.

My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.

Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.

The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse.

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard."

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it.

The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.

You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world

Good givers are great getters.

The world belongs to the people who say, 'I can'.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.