I. J. Good Quotes
The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy
The English murder their meat twice: once when they shoot it, again when they cook it. 'Drôle, n'est-ce pas'?
How you choose to live is one of the best indicators of the future you will have.
Planning your day before it begins, and adjusting your plan through the day, is one of the most important daily habits.
If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.
Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing
I have a plan, and I’m following it. I can focus on doing what is within my control, and I don’t need to be afraid of the results.
Time investment is the NEW Time Management.
The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing resource depletion.
When we know that His plans are to prosper us and give us hope and future, we bow down at once to the blessing of pruning, knowing that the change that will take place in us, will take us places.
In the back of his mind, he had always wondered why — why they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer, and he felt sick. He felt the bottom dropping out.
Kyle, you are a mellow dude...You can’t be with an agitator. And that’s what she is. An agitator. She’s a Jackson Pollock and you’re a Thomas Kinkade.
When things in the country are in the pits, start a war with somebody.
Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe
Feed your mind with thoughts that inspire, motivate, encourage, empower, educate and instruct you by deliberately choosing the information you allow into your world through sight, sound and people.
Don’t kill yourself when your scorching sun intensifies
He leaned back in his seat throwing his hands behind his head
True ambition is trying to paint yourself out of a corner
For long-term success, invest 5-10% of your time each day and 5-10% of your income each month in increasing your wisdom.
Shitty values involve tangible external goals outside of our control. Better values are process-oriented.
I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.
Earthly things will pass away. They will pass away and what will be left is my Savior.
- You gave me a dead frog for my birthday!- To remind you we all die and end up rotting underground eaten by maggots so we should enjoy our birthdays while we have them. I found it thoughtful.
You should see the murderous stares I get on the street. Though I think that has less to do with seeing a man carrying a purse and more to do with paisley. Paisley makes everyone cranky.
You turned your head to the side. Faced me. Your eyes never left mine, I read them with ease. You said nothing to them, yet everything to me. I nodded.But only when no one was watching.
Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail
Investments are about the return they provide in increased opportunities, prosperity, health, wealth, happiness, joy, and success.
Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.
Total freedom from your past
He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.
If your actions are combined with proper planning and perseverance, there are no heights you cannot attain.
Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil
Dishonesty is like a boomerang. Just when you think all is well, it hits you in the back of your head.
People with a style of denial and blaming are definitely on the list of unsafe people to avoid. 10.
Everything fades away when we lock eyes with the one who calls us His own.
Your best is good enough.
When we spend time with people who live in extreme poverty, and we listen to their stories, it creates dignity and connectedness - something they usually lack.
It's not that I'm ahead of my time, it's more that the world is running late
Be willing to constantly travel towards the dreams of your future, and don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.
Success is achieved by the deliberate consistent discipline of taking small steps daily rather than one large step occasionally.
Little old laidesspeed away in their wheel chairs, frightened meals on wheels.