Joshua Quotes

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.

A man without vision is a man without God.

When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

All action is vicarious faith.

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

In the mighty name of Jesus, all knees shall bow; all tongues shall confess! Now, in the name of Jesus, you are released!

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

The awe of God is wisdom.

We worship God through our questions.

Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.

The thing about relationships is, when you are in the middle of one, they consume your focus.

A soul can create only when alone.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

To be is to stand for.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.

I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

Try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world.

We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down.