Jim Henson Quotes

“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”

“Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.”

“People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.”

“Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.”

“I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.”

“At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.”

“We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.”

“As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.”

“Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.”

“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. ”