“The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fast...” — John Ortberg Quote

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

There's a mixture of pride and self-loathing in Jewish female comedians that I've always admired and wanted to bring into Jinkx.