Ed Martin Quotes

I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.

Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

'Dammit I'm mad' is 'Dammit I'm mad' spelled backwards.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?

I was on the train the other day, and I heard somebody say, I'm really good at checkers. That's the same thing as saying, I'm not good at very many things.

Some people say that success equals money, but frankly, I don't think success is money at all ... Success is being the best at whatever you want to do well at.

Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.

Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.

I wonder if it's rude for a deaf person to talk with food in their hands.

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

I wanna see a snake eat spaghetti.

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

I take the juice of two bottles of whisky.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.

I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.

If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!

Right now someone out there is struggling and starting to panic because they can't get out of a tempurpedic bed.

In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not.

Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.

If it hurts, DON'T DO IT AGAIN.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.

She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.

Anyone who's ever worked with Meryl Streep always says the same thing: can that woman act! And what's with all the Hitler memorabilia?

Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

I've met a few people who were passive-aggressive, but I've never met anyone who was aggressive-passive. I don't want tacos! Maybe.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.