P.J. Mann Quotes

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

Just remember that the darkest night did not turn out all the stars.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

We dont invent our natures. Theyre issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.

Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.

Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy.

Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

What Happens To A Man Is Less Significant Than What Happens Within Him.

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.