Jo Robinson Quotes

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

Grace has a grand laughter in it.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required

Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism, faddishness, and cliché.

I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.

I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.

The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

I do not support individual countries taking military action against another country because of its human rights record, or subsequently justifying taking such action on human rights grounds.

Companies should increasingly see themselves as major corporate citizens with a wider responsibility to the community. Nothing less than their reputation - their image - is at stake.

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

The prime minister has chosen to acknowledge publicly the sovereignty of God and the claim of God on her life. Hers is the challenge to live up to that claim.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

2010 was my best season so far but I think I can get better at everything.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.

But I'm a racer, that's what I've always been. I just want someone to put me in a car and leave me there.

Though you treat me badly, I love you madly.

As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.

If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

Some people think you are strong when you hold on. Others think it is when you let go.

I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.

I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.

I got my first paycheck as a cast member in the Broadway production of 'HAIR' when I was 16 years old.

There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

Summer and the laugh of my daughter make me believe in god.

We have strong statistical evidence that shows that transgender people are twice as likely as their fellow citizens to join the military, to have served in the military.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, whos the dumbest of you all?

If radioactive waste were dissolved as water soluble compounds and then widely dispersed in the oceans, no health or other environmental risks would ever occur.

It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

Though Love be deeper, Friendship is more wide.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried their best and hopefully succeeded.

Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.

I mean you last as long as lies.

True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.

Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.