John Quotes

My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.

I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem.

If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

Boom, boom, foom, poom! He just ran right at 'em!

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing.

Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring.

He believes that words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire.

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

We are all members of a larger community which depends on everyone playing a part.

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

Successful stocks don't tell you when to sell. When you feel like bragging, it's probably time to sell.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.

If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!

'With God all things are possible' (Mk. 10:27). With God the thought itself is deed. He speaks and it is. Short and clear. And all the worlds stand by the Word of God.

The Lord is the accomplishment of everything good that I think, feel and do.

Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

Let my soul live as if separated from my body.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

You don't need people's opinion on a fact.

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.

A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.

One of the most powerful forms of information is feedback on our own actions.