As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
— Jordan Peterson
That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.
I have two older brothers, and they were a huge part of life; we were very close. We used to run around and get into trouble. That's what I came from - that exploring nature.
— Jonny Weston
No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
— Joni Mitchell
I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.
— Jonathan Shapiro
All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.
— Jonathan Mayhew
Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.
— Jonathan Haidt
The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.
— Jonas Mekas
Most people who get into the business are social animals by nature, but do they have the financial abilities to manage a business? A great bar owner has both.
— Jon Taffer
I'm an optimist by nature.
— Jon Kyl
It is funny how we talk about nature as this separate entity when we are nature, and nature is us.
— Jon Hopkins
I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor.
— Jon Favreau
We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.
— Joko Beck
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
— John Webster
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
— John Updike
I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
— John Travolta
I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.
— John Tenniel
It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.
I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.
I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.
Please don't compare the nature and authenticity of 'Queer Eye' to 'The Bachelor.'
— Jonathan Van Ness
I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.
— Jonathan Raban
With a father who is a fabulous craftsman, I was raised with the fundamental belief that it is only when you personally work with a material with your hands, that you come to understand its true nature, its characteristics, its attributes, and I think - very importantly - its potential.
— Jonathan Ive
I've collected John Ward pieces for years. Ward represents ideas of nature and of sediments.
— Jonathan Anderson
Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic.
— Jonas Gahr Store
I'm neurotic by nature, but I'm wary of becoming more of a play than a comic - you don't want people coming to see a man having a breakdown for two hours. I'd prefer them coming to hear my astute and witty observations.
— Jon Richardson
Short form media is reductionist by nature.
— Jon Krakauer
I'm not keen on interfering with nature; I don't want to edit my genome.
I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.
We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us.
— Johnny Flynn
The nature of markets, and that includes player acquisition markets, is such that sooner or later any set of successful formulae that provide an excess return above investment are discounted.
— John W. Henry
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
— John Stuart Mill
It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.
Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I love getting up and going hiking and going to the beach - that's L.A. culture and it's awesome and I miss it. Toronto culture is wonderful, but I miss L.A.
— Jordan Gavaris
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
— Jonathan Swift
We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's in our nature. What's also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.
— Jonathan Nolan
The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.
Work is an addiction. I've always done too much. It's in my nature.
The concept and vision of 'Electronic Nature' is to give my fans a fully immersive sensory experience of music, visuals and more.
— Jonas Blue
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
— Jon Meacham
To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
I'm a massive catastrophist by nature.
Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.
— Jolene Blalock
The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.
— John Woo
Nature refuses to rest.
Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.
— John Tyler
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.
— John Thorn
