Joel Edgerton Quotes

Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable in making choices and setting priorities.

When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Observe, Remember, Compare.

If you judge, investigate.

You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.

New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do everything. It's nice to have the balance in Moscow.

With a revival, you're compared to somebody else.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.

The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

It's a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

When you want to attack your opponent’s position, first you have to attack it rationally.

We cherish right and we cherish left, but more important, we cherish when you are able to use the whole mind that you were born with.

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.