Jo Robinson Quotes

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.

Surround yourself with "yay-sayers" not "naysayers."

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

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

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

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

It is much easier to organize control over one industry serving many markets than over one market served by the products of several industries.

It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.

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

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

I’ve never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn’t feel right or isn’t going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.

Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.

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.

I'm not interested in a persona.

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

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

The Holy Scriptures are that divine instrument by which we are taught what to believe, concerning God, ourselves, and all things, and how to please God unto eternal life.

It started back in '79, My whole darn future was on the line. I created a brand new sensation Through my mind and the whole darn nation.

civilization is a transient sickness.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

It's always coldest before the warm.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves

Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

Music excites me, inspires me, fuels me! I listen to music every single day.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

Maybe this society, if anything, has become more patriarchal, and that has to be combated.

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

It's been a dream to play in the NFL and hopefully after next year that becomes a reality, but I wouldn't pass up being here with my teammates and coaches for anything.

What we need is equality without conformity.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.