Jo Robinson Quotes

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

I don't like needing anyone for anything.

Reality is never a golden age.

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

owning capital is not a productive activity.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors.

Competition is a great thing and critically important in any industry. I respect the companies that build their brand through innovation/great product, packaging, sharp marketing and clever ideas.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting is my gift from God.

You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank God for it.

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.

Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!

There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.

I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so nobody could see me.

In this lineup, anywhere I hit, I don't care. I always go out there and swing the bat the same way.

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back?

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.

I'm not interested in a persona.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Every time you see a University of Michigan team, you're going to see a team that's going to play together & fight until the end until there's two zeros on the clock.

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

You never stop learning. You learn something new every day.

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.