Jon J Muth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.
-- Jon J Muth

#Wisdom #Believe #Ocean
Remember then that there is only one important time, and that time is now. The most important one is always the one you are with. And the most important thing is to do good for the one who is standing at your side. This is why we are here.
-- Jon J Muth

#Your Side #Important #Why We Are Here
The strength of a story is the truth you find in it.
-- Jon J Muth

#Stories
Like everybody else, I've got dark and light, trying to hold onto the civilized part and use it successfully. I'm sure that includes competition, but not in a way that I can recognize. Most of the games I like have more to do with the process of the game or the aesthetics. Racing's really about the aesthetics for me, not particularly the idea of coming in first - though I certainly appreciate a champion, and I like watching people do something really well.
-- Jon J Muth

#Dark #People #Appreciate
I don't think I compete with myself by trying to make a better book. I don't know that that's possible. I mean, I've already done my best books, so I'd like to just make something I also like now.
-- Jon J Muth

#Book #Mean #Thinking
Anything really well-made has the effect of making you want to do what you do-better. Abrams has always made very beautiful books. It's exciting to see this same excellence applied to the presentation of comics. Abrams ComicArts shows comics are stepping out of vaudeville and into Carnegie Hall-but the Marx Brothers will always be welcome!
-- Jon J Muth

#Beautiful #Brother #Book
I love racers from that early vintage antique era of the 1950s. There's just something about them. It's the last romantic epoch of car-making. They were not efficient, necessarily. They were put together with intuition and enthusiasm, not with a formula. That's as technical as I'll get.
-- Jon J Muth

#Intuition #Together #Enthusiasm
If you're not running through chaos together with kids, you're not really playing together.
-- Jon J Muth

#Running #Kids #Together

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.
Haters are a drop in the ocean. Theres that much more love

Jon J Muth famous quotes

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