Jo Graham Quotes

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood. These guys do not do friends in the orthodox sense!

Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.

Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.

Each of us can make a great difference in the lives of other people, particularly as we move along the Success Process ourselves growing in strength, gaining experience and knowledge.

Don’t let anybody ever tell you life’s fair. Not as long as I’m in it.

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my fingers out of.

This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer claps once at the front of the classroom.

Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.

... for some of us life always comes C.O.D.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first.

I am a living soap opera.

It's a matter of how the bullpen looks as to whether Bell goes in there or Crow goes in there. Bell won't be ready for a start for another 10 days.

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.

What we prepare for is what we shall get

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.

Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.

Science is learning to control everything but man.