John Quotes

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Vy can't ve chust climb !

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

A gallant man is above ill words.

The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together.

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.

The thicker you paint, the more it flows.

Vision = Focus / Focus = Attention / Attention = Action /Action = Results / Consistent Results = Destiny

We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.

We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves.

What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.

This is an old family secret, and I just found this out recently, and it almost broke my heart. My mother said to me, 'I had never told you this, but God, you were an ugly baby'.

I swim, I do Pilates, I meditate - I think it's about keeping your stress level as low as you can.

I can't raise the bar of others if I haven't raised the bar for myself.

You don't have pressure on yourself to have to go nuts.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

If you use a poor headline, it does not matter how hard you labor over your copy because your copy will not be read.

Remember that the headline and the appeals are ONE AND THE SAME. In successful ads, the appeal is almost always expressed in the headline.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could.

It is by means of these that we attain perfect love, through the grace and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory through all the ages. Amen.

Me Brock Lesnar. Here comes the pain. God built me strong. Forget to give me brain.

Heath Slater, or the chick from Wendy's

I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts.

Conversely, the most powerful thing an actor can say is "no." If something is presented and it's a stereotypical role or something, you can say no to that, and that's very powerful.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.

A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.