Jo Robinson Quotes

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today.

Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.

Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

An endless war against terrorism can tend to inflate the terrorists, because being at war is attractive to some angry, unemployed, disaffected youth.

The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean.

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

Songwriting is my gift from God

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

The tides are in our veins.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

My business is hurting people.

You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing.

I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

If you are small and don't particularly want credit for what you are doing, you can achieve a lot.

Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to cover the hurt with a show of gladness.

The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.

Put your trust in me, let this love be. This is for real, let time stand still.

I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, security, education and equality.

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten.