Jo Robinson Quotes

At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

I had just sat down at a table with Star [Jones] and, bam, it just popped all over Star's shoes. Star was like, 'What is that!?' I said, 'My water broke!'

The ability to communicate is critical- clearly, frankly, and often.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.

Even though at 17 it was limited, I had a life before Batman.

There are 7 million species of animals on the planet and we’re the only ones of all of them who have walked away from our wild diet and created a new menu.

You are forever alone.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

We get educated out of creativity.

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

Whoever you end up with, you shouldn't be changing a thing for them. Nothing. Don't be with anyone if you can't be you. Because you're bang on just as you are.

Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls.

Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.

We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.