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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?


Abraham Joshua Heschel

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JOSHUA ABBEY The film created a huge buzz at Cannes. Few people realize that Natalie Portman is Jewish and that s...
JOSHUA ABBEY I culled the cream of the crop.
JOSHUA ABBEY I use Facebook quite a lot to keep up with my friends, although I had to delete 'Words With Frie...
JOSHUA BELL Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to...
JOSHUA SLOCUM Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic proce...
JOSHUA FOER A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS When sense runs out, one shall follow.
JOSHUA MONTENEGRO When luck runs out, sense runs in.
JOSHUA MONTENEGRO The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed ...
JOSHUA RENOLDS We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then i...
JOSHUA SCHACHTER Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing...
JOSHUA SCHACHTER When you are caught with a big shot, you don't really feel it. It's like being in a car cras...
ANTHONY JOSHUA I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, m...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring an...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Even when there is only a 1% chance for success, you have to put in 110% of the work to make that la...
JOSHUA LI To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman...
JOSHUA FOER What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, ...
JOSHUA FOER The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something....
JOSHUA FOER We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but th...
JOSHUA FOER I love the outdoor festival feeling.
JOSHUA BELL I can be the nice family man at home, and then when I go to the gym, maybe sparring with someone, I ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA I happen to love Saint-Saens in general. I think he's a brilliant composer and sometimes underra...
JOSHUA BELL I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lif...
JOSHUA FOER Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it...
JOSHUA FOER No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.
JOSHUA BELL This (year) is more about walking through the catacombs where the victims are. You get to see more o...
JOSHUA REALE Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on...
JOSHUA BELL I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people ...
JOSHUA JACKSON Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, no...
ANTHONY JOSHUA Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsessi...
ANTHONY JOSHUA Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been ...
JOSHUA REYNOLDS In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.
JOSHUA WAITZKIN Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had bee...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our coll...
JOSHUA FOER My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right ...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have e...
JOSHUA BELL