#mad

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#changed #direction #discovery #elevated #ever

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#africa #anthropology #around #began #biology

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#go #i #made #me #never

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made. ↗

— Daymond John

#dream #entrepreneur #how #investor #made

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like. ↗

— Lara St. John

#concept #know #like #love #made

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#attack #color #different #different directions #directions

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artist #before #being #change #during

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures. ↗

— Don Johnson

#commercial #even #failures #films #find

But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#exciting #exciting time #given #going #i

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs. ↗

— Jack Johnson

#full #like #made #our #our dreams