Joshua Quotes

Records don't have to be perfect.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.

We'll have our fill of tears, our share of sighs. My only prayer is that you'll realize you'll always be beautiful in my eyes.

In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).

The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.

Seeing nothing one sees everything.

Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.

Master water first and then paint.

There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions.

The Syrian government is weak today in 2017, but it's been gathering strength. And I think it's likely that, in the next few years, you will see the Syrian government retake much of Syria.

I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself as a delightful little man.

I think if you stand me up next to Rob Lowe, it's like we represent two different species.

I found that while it was interesting to travel around and take the photographs, I would find that I was more interested in the stories behind the photographs. I was more interested in narrative.

Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest in journalism and political science and international relations.

I think most directors subscribe to the principle that less is more, and the best direction is the most concise direction.

Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations.

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.

So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I think is very appropriate.

People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them.

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

You can mythologize Steve Jobs, but really in the end, he was a kid from the Valley, with his funny little friends, and they made something. That's all he was.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.

I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.

The more we're doing to ensure we're following our joy and passion, that's when we really start to put the gas in our lives.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.

I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf.

I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its readers are up to the challenge of interacting with difficult material.

For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.

My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

I used to consider myself to be a cineophile, and then I had a daughter. Ha! Now I barely see any movies.