Criss Jami, Killosophy
"You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided."
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"You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"Is the phrase 'pay' or 'play the piper'I inquire, why'Cause I admire a desire to flip the switch Yeah make a way to face the music like Life savings for a mosh pit riot Listen to a mix Rock the tickets, higher volume Velocity which shakes a cockpit's pilot"
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
"I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career."
Criss Jami, Killosophy
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