The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“If every single man and woman, child and baby, acts and conducts itself in a known pattern and breaks no walls and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“She had not prayed directly for the recovery of the baby - she had prayed that they might find a pearl with… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now the group was welded to one thing, one unit, so that in the dark the eyes of the people were… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And who in his mind has not probed the black water? Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“This one will be shrewd, I think, and shrewdness is a limitation on the mind. Shrewdness tells you what you must not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some effection, but with Montana it is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had started to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
![“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84c/john-steinbeck-71_art_teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-t_1738.jpg)
