Joshua Quotes

We are all going through some sort of struggle, so I try to keep that in mind when someone makes me angry. I also know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world. When I'm not in love with someone, I feel empty and I can't think about anything but trying to find that someone.

Some of the freshest, most compelling, and most soulful music I have heard recently. Bob Reynolds is an amazing musician, with something very exciting and original to say.

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye.

You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.

While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.

The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.

Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended to rouse the nobler passions.

An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention.

However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.

I think I want to go in to law or oncology, as those are both subjects that really interest me, but my parents say that I should be a politician since I am so good at arguing!

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

My calmness is peace of heart, which reflects in the life I live. This peace of heart is the source that calms the storm.

I am a servant, taking orders and receiving orders. What God tells me, I say, and what He shows me, I see. His will must always supersede.

Jesus, deliver me from the spirit of witchcraft!

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.

One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

Sorry. I'm not, like, medieval torture expert guy.

The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast.

Choices, the greatest power we have, Choices, the path which is destiny, Choices, the result which is you... .

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

Being in love also means learning not to say anything until she's had coffee.

The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.