I. J. Good Quotes
The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades. Charles Darwin
Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.
I like gross generalizations...I also like disgusting specifics!
There's always someone we'd love to kill, the trick is to make it not look like an accident
If you don't fall down now and again, it just means the training wheels are working
Surround yourself with things that inspire you every day. Let go of everything that drains your inspiration.
When you are inspired, there is little you won’t attempt. Find what inspires you, and keep it around and with you always.
Planning gives you the opportunity to identify the tasks that will add the most value to attaining your outcomes.
Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.
If you think you're unable to be on the cover of Time magazine, make your business to be there.
People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.
How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.
It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing
You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.
![I. J. Good Quotes: "There's a quote of hers [Lucille Ball] that I've always loved: 'I guess I would rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I've never done."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations202/There-s-a-quote-of-hers-Lucille-202324.jpg)
There's a quote of hers [Lucille Ball] that I've always loved: 'I guess I would rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I've never done.
Lucifer, how, after a dozen millennia in Hell, could you possibly lose your way?" the Devil asked incredulously. "Well, " the lesser demon began, "It is a rather large place...
Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss....
Nearly all rich an powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.
Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.
Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.
Sophie: "For the Create-A-Tale Competition, your story ended with Snow White eaten by vultures and Cinderella drowning her-self in a tub."Agatha: "I thought it was a better ending.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything, and in this lies the great distinction between great man and little man.- Thomas Fuller
The sign of the victorious communities are that they forbid evil
Now is the only time you have. Change is happening. Give up your desire to control the world
Some salesmen think that selling is like eating—to satisfy an existing appetite
Even now, as a vampire, the fear of addiction ruled her world.Would she ever be free?
There ain't nothin' that makes a man feel more alive than white-hot desire.
dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths
You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.
Heaven has no taste.""Now-""And not one single sushi restaurant."A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.
true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others
And though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance
Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.
He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.
The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God’s good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of sin, as the villain.
We need only two persons in our life - just you and me
What did you do to her?” There were a thousand things he’d
With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.
Most of us are “living the dream” living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.
To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.
Find things to be grateful for. It is easy. You're alive
The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes bitter as the bile
Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.