E.L. James Quotes

No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It's on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself!

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.

The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.

I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.

I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In fact, I'm sure people are doing it.

Here's the question I would ask you to consider; do you treat yourself the way you want other people to treat you?

We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.

I think pressure when you work is good. It forces you to take risks and to do other things.

I went through about 40 different hats until we found one that fit. It had to fit me and fit the character, more importantly, and whatever that thing was that we were trying to create with him.

Not every conspiracy is a theory.

Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

As a little kid, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson.

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.

Credit . . . is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

In every picture there should be shade as well as light.

That favorite subject, Myself.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

I feel like we were married from the moment we sat down there.

We are all participants in the marvelous.

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

I'm twice as old, but I feel good.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

Life is too short to read inferior books.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

....there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.

Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.