Jeff Myers famous quotes

When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns. People live aimlessly because they have no cause for which they are willing to die. The cry of the populace is 'Just leave me alone'. Perhaps the ultimate hell is that the wish will be granted. It is not unlikely that our own nation will collapse not through an explosive roar, but through a deafening silence. This silence must be broken in our generation. We may never get another chance.
-- Jeff Myers

#Cities #Common Purpose #Our Generation

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is action in spite of fear. Courageous people never really overcome their fears. They just become determined to push through them and to use that adrenaline to their advantage.
-- Jeff Myers

#People #Overcoming #Use

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.
-- Jeff Myers

#Caring #Adults #Mentoring

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.