E. G. Marshall Quotes

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

I was determined not to remain poor.

I dont sit well. I like to move around as I talk.

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.

Laughter is a release of tension. When influencing, make the other person laugh; you'll gain rapport instantly.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

The most human thing about us is our technology.

I'm too old to be forced.

When you know how to make money, you're obligated to.

The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.

Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.

A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.

I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.

I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything.

We come from ruins, but we're not ruined.

Your giving and searching for ways to give is Love in action. This is the evidence of Spirit at work.

Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.

Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.

I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.

When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer.

We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Always listen to what people need rather than what they are thinking about us.

You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.

The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

I alwyas want to try and create new looks and new things, but equally scary, hopefully. But a new kind of style.

If you want to get attacked, have an opinion.

If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me?

Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

Wealthy people always know the exact value of their time.

... Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

The rich do get richer - meaning that those who appreciate what they have will get more. Be grateful everyday.

One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.