J. K. Simmons Quotes

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

Happy can make you money, but money can't make you happy.

Mistakes only cost you when you don't acknowledge them.

Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.

It's not always what you know, but who you know. Get out and meet people.

As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.

There are no limitations to any of our dreams.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.

My little girls are the most beautiful women in the world. I am a lucky, lucky man. I will spend every day making sure that they know this.

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

I represent luxury, and that's what I love.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.

If your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song really works. That's the electric church of it. The glory hallelujah of it.

Happy new year everbody! And remember: be kind to eachother.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.

Meditation helps everything.

I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed.

An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.

Always try to be yourself.

There's something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.

The artists are now big brands.

I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.

Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.

My life is just a never-ending work in progress.

I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all.

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

The cup that went down under has now come up again.

When I lost my weight, I went and bought about 15 different types of underwear to see what would look good on my new body. It's exciting!