A.J. Jacobs Quotes

Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.

Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.

When God made up this world of ours, He made it long and wide, And meant that it should shelter all, And none should be denied.

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

New ideas often need old buildings.

Given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees.

Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

I still appreciate individuality. Style is much more interesting than fashion, really.

Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.

Death is better than slavery.

I used to buy good shoes, now I buy good bags. They make me feel more confident.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

Especially in a world that doesn't need homemade anything.That's when we need homemade everything.

City diversity represents accident and chaos.

Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas.

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not a divinely inspired human being like an artist!

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?

I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!

As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.

Anybody can be hurt. This is boxing.

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.

The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.

The Louis Vuitton woman is more about a quality - a quality within some women that needs to come forward, to be noticed and recognised.

Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?

I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.

I am wrestling with the overalls trend. I wore so many pairs in junior high, and no one thought they were cute. Perhaps I'll try them cuffed with a tasteful crop top?

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

It feels kind of naughty when you're swearing on set and you know it's gonna make it in unbleeped on the show.

Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.

I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.