Top 100 Quotes About Jami
#1. I'm very excited about is that my son Scott is a director and he just finished his first picture. It's called "Lucky 13", it's a low budget picture, it stars Jeremy Dillon, Daryl Hannah and Jami Gertz.
Garry Marshall
#2. Good intentions are useless in the absence of common sense. - JAMI, BAHARISTAN
Gurcharan Das
#3. I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz.
Toks Olagundoye
#4. In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth.
Criss Jami
#5. Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.
Criss Jami
#6. The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
Criss Jami
#7. When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.
Criss Jami
#8. Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
Criss Jami
#9. The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it.
Jami Attenberg
#10. I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it's always worth writing.
Jami Attenberg
#11. It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.
Criss Jami
#12. The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.
Criss Jami
#13. Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
Criss Jami
#14. With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.
Jami Attenberg
#15. The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
Criss Jami
#16. I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.
Jami Attenberg
#17. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
Criss Jami
#18. If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.
Criss Jami
#19. It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce.
Criss Jami
#20. In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.
Criss Jami
#21. ...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.
Criss Jami
#22. There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
Criss Jami
#23. Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.
Criss Jami
#24. The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.
Criss Jami
#25. The kiss wove between gentle and frenzied, liquid and greedy, silken and primal, and he sucked every second of bliss he could from the forbidden pleasure.
Jami Gold
#26. To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.
Criss Jami
#27. There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.
Jami Attenberg
#28. Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.
Criss Jami
#29. Our poor world aspires simply to point out where Christians have gone wrong, and that is pretty much where it goes wrong. It is as though many of us, when of the world, are actually all the more judgmental: for we are stuck on a bad Christian while the Christian is pinned to a good Christ.
Criss Jami
#30. The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.
Jami Gertz
#31. I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to move on.
Jami Gertz
#32. My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.
Jami Attenberg
#33. It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.
Criss Jami
#34. My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.
Jami Attenberg
#35. Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
Criss Jami
#36. I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.
Jami Attenberg
#37. Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.
Criss Jami
#38. Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.
Criss Jami
#39. In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.
Jami Attenberg
#40. If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
Criss Jami
#41. But a funny thing happens when you tell a man that you don't want to get married: they don't believe you. They think you're lying to yourself or to them or you're trying to trick them in some way and you end up being made to feel worse for just telling the truth.
Jami Attenberg
#42. People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.
Criss Jami
#43. It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.
Jami Attenberg
#44. My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.
Jami Attenberg
#45. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
Criss Jami
#46. He'd done it again. Screwed up in a social situation and dragged the whole team down with hm. His new team. The ones who were counting on him to be a leader on and off the field. He'd led them, all right, almost into a brawl.
Jami Davenport
#47. The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.
Criss Jami
#48. A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.
Criss Jami
#49. When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
Criss Jami
#50. People judge you because of your weight and your food issues. It's very visual.
Jami Attenberg
#51. Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.
Criss Jami
#52. I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.
Jami Attenberg
#54. I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.
Jami Attenberg
#55. If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
Criss Jami
#56. Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
Criss Jami
#57. Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.
Criss Jami
#58. When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
Criss Jami
#59. Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.
Jami Gertz
#60. If you can't see the beauty in the dirt then I feel sorry for you. And if you can't see why these streets are special, then just go home already.
Jami Attenberg
#61. Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.
Criss Jami
#62. If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.
Criss Jami
#63. Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.
Criss Jami
#64. If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.
Criss Jami
#65. I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.
Criss Jami
#66. I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
Criss Jami
#67. God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody; he should proselytize because the Gospel being shared is the ultimate act of love: because he thinks he can love everybody.
Criss Jami
#68. After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.
Criss Jami
#69. If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.
Criss Jami
#70. The worst evil is that most subtle evil. It is the evil that is merely 'base' which is more evil than evil itself. For it is the one closest to righteousness, the one indistinguishable and doused in virtue.
Criss Jami
#71. In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.
Criss Jami
#72. Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.
Criss Jami
#73. When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it.
Jami Attenberg
#74. People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.
Criss Jami
#75. Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.
Criss Jami
#76. There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten my hair.
Jami Floyd
#77. God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.
Criss Jami
#78. A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
Criss Jami
#79. A fruitless year, take a fearless heart
One that blooms late will flourish in the dark
Criss Jami
#80. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
Criss Jami
#81. There's just so many goddamn things we never get to know. We're not entitled to all the truth.
Jami Attenberg
#82. To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.
Criss Jami
#83. Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment.
Criss Jami
#84. Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
Criss Jami
#85. You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'
Jami Attenberg
#86. For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.
Criss Jami
#87. On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth.
Criss Jami
#88. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
#89. Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will.
Criss Jami
#90. I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.
Jami Gertz
#91. When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
Criss Jami
#92. Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.
Criss Jami
#93. Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
Criss Jami
#94. A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.
Criss Jami
#95. An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
Criss Jami
#96. I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?
Jami Attenberg
#97. Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.
Criss Jami
#98. Christ died not so that you could freely go on sinning, and therefore, continue dying; He died rather so that you could freely grow in obedience, and therefore, start living.
Criss Jami
#100. As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?
Criss Jami
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