J. C. Watts Quotes

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

Dear Lord. I give myself away. I've nothing else to give.

It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.

Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.

Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.

The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.

What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, "What did you think?"

Hotels are temporary people storage, no matter how big the boxes are. Remember that.

I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady.

The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of years ago. To share that experience with him was a great pleasure.

I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.

I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.