Jim Quotes

You can make startling changes you can’t even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.

Lifestyle is not an amount; it's a practice.

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author.

There are no new fundamentals.

If I could just get to Poland everything would be okay.

Enterprise is better than ease.

When you change, everything will change for you. When you get better, everything will get better for you.

The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.

Of course kids should pay taxes.Tell littlie johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud,he's got to pay3 more pennies when he buys a candy bar.

I think I'm vision-impaired!

Two beautiful women crashing and burning for the sake of the Women's Championship!!!

Cena, love him or not, connects with the ticket buying public better than any one in the biz. End of story.

Everyone has a different bump card and when it's up, it's up.

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

Deception is everywhere.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer by reducing vulnerability to future disasters.

I don't know one person who has changed their vote from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump because Vladimir Putin wanted them to do that.

Extending amnesty to those who came here illegally or overstayed their visas is dangerous waters...We are a nation of laws, and I will evaluate any proposal through that matrix.

Foreign meddling elections is bad whether it's done by the Russians here or by us or anyplace else.

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way of reducing total emissions.

I personally believe that the solar flares are more responsible for climatic cycles than anything that human beings do

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

When you're younger, you go out and you're convivial because you have to be. But once you don't have to meet people anymore, what's your motivation in going out?

I'm jealous of that time when you could afford lofts and survive on almost nothing. You can't do that anymore.

The medals no-one will ever wear should be the ones that reflect the most. It's not an ending, it's not a period at the end of their lives, it's a semicolon. The story will continue to be told.

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.

Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm sort of a catastrophist.

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.

Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier.

The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you're deluged with. You can just say you never got to it.

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.

I'm tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, "Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere."

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

Today the brightest light in the Scottish political firmament has gone out.

Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and I mean that literally.

The US dollar will make new lows

Marketing and advertising are incredibly exciting and creative functions. They are central to the creation of brands and to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage for companies

Smoking wildwood flower got to be a habit, we didn't see no harm. We thought it was kind of handy, to take a trip and never leave the farm.

We know that investment causes growth. But it is also true that growth causes investment.

Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job - and what might destroy it.

The problem is not scarcity; the problem is power.

Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.