P.J. Mann Quotes

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

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often

These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you can imagine that-art for fun.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

I've always been intrigued by the supernatural.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.

I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Everything is politics.

You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something.

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

Perfect people are the scariest people to me.

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom.

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.