Jacob Quotes

Goals are to be set clear without frills. Do not be deterred and take reality as it is, not as it should be.

Opportunities are always everywhere, learn to see and create them.

you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.

I love driving, but I like driving on a two lane road where you can drive for hours and not see anybody.

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.

The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.

What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?

Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

You are not responsible for everyone's happiness.

I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn.

As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene I'm doing. You never quite know where your emotions will take you.

We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.

I'm starting to like muggers more than congressmen. At least the muggers don't claim they're doing you a favor.

For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

We always say, one day we will laugh at this. I always try to make sure that this one day is today.

I could show you a picture right now where I look like something from The Hills Have Eyes. Talk about an awkward stage. Puberty was not good at all.

If a thing goes without saying -- let it.

There is no way to catch a snake that is as safe as not catching him.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders.

The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.

It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I think that I the biggest thing that I need is more creative time. More time to make mistakes.

The biggest problem that I see that young artists have is they aren't willing to fail. And unless you fail a lot, I think it's difficult to find a voice that shouts above the crowds.

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

You can tell when women have a sensibility about, or a sense of bravery or a sense of understanding about their personal style that's outside of what you see from a magazine.

As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.

I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all the time.

I like girls that are down to earth, just like to have fun, and be themselves.

It feels great seeing posters everywhere, and bus stops promoting 'Black Nativity,' and billboards in Los Angeles. It's overwhelming. I can't wait for everybody to see what I got.

Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.

Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.

If the Devil is real, then God must be real, too.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.