John Quotes

There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on…there was something touching and appealing about her.

She [Dokic] left the court with a face as long as thunder.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.

Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain.

The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.

Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

If you're not grateful, you're not rich - no matter how much you have.

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

As you get older you have to force yourself to have new dreams.

I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person

It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

Without rain, there would be no life.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. [So when you are crying remember also to anticipate and look for the rainbow.]

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.