Jacob Quotes

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

I don't regret the decisions or direction I've chosen, but I feel it's important to be self aware.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.

With average or even minimum ability, success is still very possible.

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.

Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's.

The artist is the world's scapegoat.

The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Most of these love triangles are wrecktangles.

Africa has decided to take matters of instability into its own hands.

I feel that bands can do whatever they want, after all, they own themselves and the art/music they create.

Time is always fleeting and the lunar phases represent that visually for me. What people take away from that and how they apply it within their own lives, that's entirely up to them.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.

A religion shapes the world of its believers by identifying questions that need answers and providing answers that people 'know' to be true. ­

I don't have a set routine, but I try to squeeze in a workout every day, whether it's taking a hike, taking a Pilates class, or just putting in a workout DVD. Whatever it takes!

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.

Prayer is a path where there is none.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.

It is no use trying to sum people up.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.

There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual

Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.