J. Robbins Quotes

Notice what no one else notices and you'll know what no one else knows.

Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

Don't be outraged, be outrageous.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

We are seldom as limited as we think we are.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.

The only question is how to make love stay.

This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper.

Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.

Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats.

Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell.

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions.

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

Find the center of what you believe matters most to you in life ,and act on it today! The moment is now!

If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

The only problem we really have is we think we're not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- - face & solve them now!

To measure success with material things is failure!

Your current situation is no indication of your ultimate potential!

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.

Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.

Focus on executing to give maximum value to your customers. That means learning everything from financing to producing to marketing.

Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent

If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.

The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray.

If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life. If we believe our life is defined by narrow limits, we've suddenly made those beliefs real.

You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.

I think there's a difference between "I Can" and "I Am." And "I Am" is really the goal that I'm looking for, rather than "I Can".

Change your habitual questions and change your destiny!

No matter if the path is tough, and your nights are long,So long as your cause is noble and your mind is strong.

If you believe you are right, or you believe you are wrong, you're right. Whenever you are certain about it, you will support it. Remember that.

Don't ever speak publicly about anything that you're not passionate about and that you don't actually believe you have something truly unique about it to deliver.

Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.