Jonah Quotes

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Going viral isn’t random, magic, or luck. It’s a science.

Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have.

Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.

For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.

To have a style is to be stuck.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby, I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible.

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.

I like playing characters that, you know, a couple could go see the movie and one person could love him and one person could hate him.

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'

I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.

Im a typical Capricorn. Im hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I dont believe in astrology.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.