I. J. Good Quotes
A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.
Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.
But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.
...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).
The older we become, the more important it is to use what we know rather than learn more.
The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.
Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.
There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.
I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.
The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.
People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.
I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.
I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.
I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.
A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.
Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.
Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.
But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.
Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.
The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.
There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally.
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.
Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.
One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.
You aren't alive if you aren't in need.
Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.
You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?
I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.
We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.
