Joshua Quotes

It's important to write like your readers are brilliant.

Direct cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.

In Indonesian, the word isn't translating as "gangster." It's "preman", which comes from the Dutch "préman", which of course the thing that's "freeman" in English.

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

I know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone.

I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.

I want my songs to be heard by everyone.

I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.

I like to express myself creatively and it doesn't matter the medium. Whatever medium I choose at that moment, whatever works the best.

I try to help other people get through difficult times in their own lives.

I know that positive energy begets positive energy.

Love makes me feel vulnerable.

I try to exercise as much as possible and eat healthy. But most importantly, I try to make sure that I'm near people who inspire me to be a better person.

Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

Less coin, less care.

What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator.

Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.

Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.

Its a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because thats where your community is.

You can not make me pick between my roles! That is like making me pick between my children!

When I go in to the recording studio, I already know almost exactly what I am going to do, but when I go to set, it is really a wildcard. I have no idea what is going to happen.

In live action, you go scene by scene, but in voice over you go line by line. In voice over you do a lot more takes.

My parents are the ones who really help me be grounded. I still go to school, I still do fun stuff with my friends; for the most part, I am a normal kid. It just so happens that I do some acting too!

If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product.

Reduce. Do as little as possible to get what you have to get done.

Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing? What we decided to leave out is almost as important as what we put in.

We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job.

They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.

A servant cannot be greater than his master.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself.

We can't change by fancy methods. We can't change by mere willpower. But God's Spirit working in us can help us to "will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

You cannot explore the universe if you think that you are the center of it.

Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing.

Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.

My favourite sound in the world —hearing your heart beatbeat for my heart.

We should never use spiritual activities as a way to grab for more intimacy than is appropriate for our relationship.