Joshua Quotes

Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you dream of them in a different way than I do.

There are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles

Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

We have today and hopefully tomorrow to be the best version of ourselves.

I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?

I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.

It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul.

No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

I know that positive energy begets positive energy. I know that when I decide to see the good in something or someone, it's returned to me tenfold.

If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.

If we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.

Nothing can come of nothing; he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.

The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart.

A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.

The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Life without commitment is not worth living.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

I am commanded therefore I am.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

People say love is a gift but i say love is a burden, loving someone and having to watch them be in love with someone else.

As for me and my family, we'll worship God.

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

I love the outdoor festival feeling.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.

I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.

I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.

Love is blind, definitely. You never know someone truly or properly, that's what I've discovered.

I might take what I do very seriously, but at least I'm doing something, rather than sitting on my arse and being no-one.

I've sacrificed lots of aspects of my personal life to do what I do.

People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.

Lyrically I address loads of things that I've never talked about before, about me or about other people.

I got to a crossroads in my life where basically I was asked to choose between staying at home and being with them, or being in a band and doing what I want to do.

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.