Jonathan Tisch Quotes

#1. I support organizations that help people do better for themselves and the community.

Jonathan Tisch

#2. I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.

Norm MacDonald

#3. You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community.

Jonathan Tisch

#4. I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.

Jonathan Tisch

#5. People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

Brian Eno

#6. I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

Frank Stella

#7. Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.

Jonathan Tisch

#8. You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

Jonathan Tisch

#9. ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS: Be very careful who you give acknowledgement to in your books. Reason: That acknowledgement is in permanent, ink and they are forever associated with you, that book and your name. -Word to the Wi

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#10. The only real way to differentiate yourself from the competition is through service.

Jonathan Tisch

#11. I'm saying that you can create success for yourself but also understand that you have a responsibility to others.

Jonathan Tisch

#12. Does this current deterioration and corruption of language, imprecision of thought, and so forth scare you - or is it just a decadent phase?

AUDEN

It terrifies me. I try by my personal example to fight it; as I say, it's a poet's role to maintain the sacredness of language.

W. H. Auden