Top 80 Why Jonah Quotes
#1. The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.
Jonah Lehrer
#2. Why does it matter if particular thoughts or ideas are top of mind? Because accessible thoughts and ideas lead to action.
Jonah Berger
#3. I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.
Jonah Goldberg
#4. I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
Lois Lowry
#5. If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, you'll lose the joy of it, and if you lose the joy, you won't sound good to those who know piano - or to yourself.
Dean Koontz
#6. The young man looked down from the cart at the people in front of him. Jonah felt his teacher's eyes meet his own, and for a fraction of a second a smile played on the prisoner's lips. Then he glanced toward heaven and spoke. I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Anna Myers
#9. I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy ... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.
Jonah Hill
#10. I wasn't asking anything about God," Jonah complained.
"Yeah, you kind of were," JB said. "If there is fate, who else would control it?
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#11. Keep the change, Gin," McCallister said in a smarmy, mocking voice. "Consider it an early Christmas present."
"Aw," I drawled. "A whopping thirteen cents. You're too kind, Jonah. Why, you'd put Ebezener Scrooge to shame with your bighearted generosity.
Jennifer Estep
#12. The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas
Jonah Peretti
#13. The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.
Jonah Lehrer
#14. In those jaws of swift destruction, like another Jonah (by which name they indeed called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death. Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison.
Herman Melville
#15. Word of mouth is the primary factor behind 20 percent to 50 percent of all purchasing decisions.
Jonah Berger
#16. Jesus is teaching and wants you to learn. This means you will be stretched. Jesus does not want you stuck in a bonehead English class, which I was for several years.
Jonah Books
#17. People ask, "Why is there poverty in the world?" It's a silly question. Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset of this mortal coil.
Jonah Goldberg
#18. Salvation is the work of God planned in eternity, communicated by the prophets in the Old Testament and fulfilled in Christ; all of which the apostles bear witness to and the angels long to look into these things.
Jonah Books
#19. A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is. That's because rhetorically and substantively, he seems to be in another world ...
Jonah Goldberg
#20. Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! there's a member-roll for you! What club but the whaleman's can head off like that?
Herman Melville
#21. Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.
Jonah Hill
#22. I'm about to tell Jonah about the safari Dad's going to take me on, but Mrs. Marconi says talking's like ping-pong: you take turns.
David Mitchell
#23. Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale to question liberals' love of country?
Jonah Goldberg
#24. When you fall in love, when Love really does its worst, it gives you no cause. It swallows you whole. It allows no refusals. Like Jonah only after he had been inside the whale awhile, you may say, if asked, Oh, this is why I am here.
Candice Raquel Lee
#25. Why do some products, ideas, and behaviors succeed when others fail?
Jonah Berger
#26. Yet science articles, like Denise Grady's piece about the cough, made the Most E-Mailed list more than politics, fashion, or business news. Why? It turns out that science articles frequently chronicle innovations and discoveries that evoke a particular emotion in readers. That emotion? Awe.
Jonah Berger
#27. Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new
Jonah Lehrer
#28. People are racist to us, sir, so why can't we be racist to rangas?
Jonah
#29. You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.
Jonah Goldberg
#30. And this is why people believe in God, isn't it? Jonah wondered. Because we can tell there's something bigger out there that we're part of. Because we can tell that there's something more to all of us, and more to all of our lives.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#31. For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But the reality is that there are many different kinds of minds. And that's a very good thing.
Jonah Lehrer
#32. You need to cool it some, geek." said Motti. "Why not go to the fridge, open the door, and stand there for a minute? Then grab a beer from inside and bring it to me." Jonah smiled despite himself. "Good of you to think of my welfare like that.
Stephen Cole
#33. Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.
Jonah Goldberg
#34. Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.
Jonah Berger
#35. Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?
Jonah Hill
#36. Hamilton was bug-eyed. "Who are those people?"
Jonah held his head. "Man, I should have known it was a mistake to say I'd be leaving town soon! Why do fans have to be so literal?"
"Are they going to let us go get the faxes?" Hamilton asked.
Jonah stared at him. "You're kidding, right?
Gordon Korman
#37. People go to the front page of BuzzFeed partly because they've seen a bunch of things in their stream, and they're like, 'Oh, I like this site. Why don't I go to the source?' I think that happens. But also people are going to look for something to share.
Jonah Peretti
#38. Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.
Jonah Goldberg
#39. When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, "We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That's why I'm going to abandon all my objections and agree with you"?
Jonah Goldberg
#40. If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?
Jonah Goldberg
#41. Jesus was not white, hey, he was a black man. Like our pig man, Mzwaki. All the Bible people were dark people.
Jonah Becker
#42. The banner waved by the religious leaders reads; do not upset my world! Jesus is one who comes to call an about face and reverse the curse. Jesus call is not half way or three quarters; it is a complete and utter abandonment to his Lordship. Will the Pharisees and Herodians submit to Jesus Lordship?
Jonah Books
#43. And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit that's what they're doing.
Jonah Goldberg
#44. The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.
Jonah Lehrer
#45. Jonah squealed, jumping up and down and shaking his pom-poms. His skirt swished around his scrawny yellow knees.
"Jonah, can I give you a piece of sisterly advice?"
"Yeah."
"If you ever want to lose your virginity, don't do that again. Ever.
Carrie Harris
#46. Live your life as if it was written by Aaron Sorkin
Jonah Bergan
#47. Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we've got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity and its sources. Imagine is his best book yet.
Joshua Foer
#48. As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.
Bob Dylan
#49. The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.
Jonah Lehrer
#50. A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.
Jonah Peretti
#51. If I should pass the tomb of Jonah I would stop and sit for a while. For I was buried one time deep in the dark and came out alive after all.
Anonymous
#52. Suffering through his classes, the young Igor steeped himself in angst. He would later describe his childhood as 'a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
Jonah Lehrer
#54. Give your family kisses from me, will you? I think I fell for all seven of you a little more every day. But mostly you, Jonah. Mostly, madly, beautifully you.
Emery Lord
#55. I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.
Jonah Hill
#56. Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?
Jonah Peretti
#57. Can you see why I can't stand a lie? People have been lying to me all my life. Even the person I loved the most in the world."
Sometimes people lie for good reasons," Jonah said. "To keep you safe, or to avoid breaking your heart, or to make it possible for you to go on living.
Cinda Williams Chima
#58. Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.
Aldous Huxley
#59. The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is much more beneath this little book. (page iii)
Michael Ben Zehabe
#60. Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.
Jonah Lehrer
#61. I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'
Robin Williams
#62. I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.
Jonah Hill
#63. The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.
Jonah Goldberg
#64. Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone "soft"? Really?
Jonah Goldberg
#65. Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.
Jonah Goldberg
#66. Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.
Jonah Lehrer
#67. Out of the lions' den for Daniel, the prison for Peter, the whale's belly for Jonah, Goliath's shadow for David the storm for the disciples, disease for the lepers, doubt for Thomas, the grave for Lazarus, and the shackles for Paul. God gets us through stuff.
Max Lucado
#68. Contagious content is like that - so inherently viral that it spreads regardless of who is doing the talking.
Jonah Berger
#69. ...Prions violate most of biology's sacred rules. They are one of those annoying reminders of how much we don't know.
Jonah Lehrer
#70. Jesus was always on the front-lines washing dirty feet. Humility soon is shelved in ministry and we start thinking to much of ourselves. It is hard to effectively minister in Christ name when we look down on someone, but if we are washing their feet we look up to them giving them value and worth.
Jonah Books
#71. Thank you Jonah."
He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting.
"For what?" he whispers.
" For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million.
Katie McGarry
#72. Dan inched closer. "Are her eyelids moving?"
Jonah was on his feet now, cheerleading. "Get up, babysitter! Up! Up!
Gordon Korman
#73. I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.
Bob Dylan
#74. One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.
Jonah Goldberg
#75. Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
Jonah Lehrer
#76. Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.
Jonah Lomu
#77. In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.
Jonah Goldberg
#78. I feel like Jonah Hill would be a good selfie, or Jennifer Lawrence. They'd be really good ones ... Historic.
Sarah Hyland
#79. I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.
Jonah Hill
#80. I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. - A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything.
Thomas Paine
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