John Quotes

No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you.

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.

People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

I don't know who I am, to tell you the truth.

I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.

Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.

Avoid the "hard-to-grasp" headline - the headline that requires thought and is not clear at first glance.

In striving to produce an attractive headline, the copywriter should not emphasize the "quick, easy way" to such an extent that the headline becomes unbelievable.

I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.

I'm sure there was people in Australia that told Peter Norman that hey, man, you shouldn't have done what you did, you shouldn't have gotten involved in those individuals, it wasn't your business.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated.

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.

It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

What I want to do is, I want to put together a nice list of those guys who I really did admire when I was growing up, listening to names like Lord Finesse.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

I believe that writing is an account of the powers of extrication.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

Sometimes you just get giggles leprosy and it can't be helped. I find that there's a direct correlation between fatigue and breaking.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

Laughter destroys any divisions between people.