Jim Quotes

I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

I loved Lost, from beginning to end.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it.

To have more, we must first become more.

Don't start the day until you have it finished. Don't start the week until you have it finished. Don't start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.

Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process.

Good people are not trained, they are found. If you are training too much, you may not have the right people.

Pay attention to your body. Is this the only place where they should live.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

It's not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it.

One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.

The Bible says that it is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. It doesn't say that it is impossible!

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.

What you have at the moment you have attracted by the person you have become.

Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.

You may not be able to do all you find out, but make sure you find out all you can do.

Someone is going to develop a plan that will take them into the future of their dreams. Let it be you.

Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest.

For things to change for you, you've got to change!

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.

The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there" "Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value

Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.

Things don't just happen; things happen just.

On any one day you can massively change the direction of your life.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.

Remind yourself that you're bound to get better. Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that matters, not the last one.

The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude.

Thanksgiving opens up the windows of the opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning

Everything you need is within reach, the key is whose going to reach

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

If you don't like where you are, then change it. You are not a tree!

When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.

Things don't change, people change.

We’ve all got to worry some-but we can’t let it conquer us. Instead, let it alarm us.

The key to turning dreams into reality is action.

In order to find, you must first search.

. . . escape is easier than change.

In leadership we teach we teach;Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend.