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James Goldsmith Quotes

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

James Goldsmith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: french
Birth: February 26, 1933 - July 18, 1997

Topics

Weakness Tolerance Virtue Neighbors

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

People Find Want Why Will Write

One chance is all you need.

Chance You Need

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

Michel Foucault

Technology Power Discipline Physics

My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.

Life Simple Choices My Life Country

I studied Paul Simon's 'Slip Slidin' Away' and 'Still Crazy After All These Years.' I wanted to explore adult themes, portraying the hurt that's in even a good relationship.

Good Relationship Crazy Hurt Explore

But God really did bless me, you know? He really said, All right. Come on. I'm still waiting for you. Get over here. Get over here.

God Waiting Me You Know Said

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'

Experience Strong Learn Find Quiet

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Money Financial Better Poverty Only

Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.

Women Men Medicine Better Golf More

Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America.

America Crime Human Rights Going

I like Roy Orbison's video for 'I Drove All Night' because it's so literal. It is just a man driving throughout the night. I like that silliness. To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour.

Man Night Impossible Driving Humour

What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily... understanding of the sense of touch.

I Am Problems Understanding Problem

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