Jonas Mekas Quotes

Fundamentals - everybody has that. I definitely have that.

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

Come back down to basics. The basic things of life, the basic things for me are the things that turn me on more than anything. I'm actually trying to go back from where I was running from...the more essential things that I was ignoring.

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.

Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.

We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Simply be the qualities you seek in others.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . . democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival.

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.

The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.

There is no quality that we respond to in another that we lack. It might be hidden behind some bad behavior or an old, outdated shadow belief that says we are the exact opposite of what we are seeing in the other person. But I promise you that if you are attracted to a quality in someone else, no matter how great, it also exists inside of you.