John Quotes
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides.
Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends - they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.
After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.
The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.
God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the man. Rather He alters the man to fit the robe.
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
We need to learn how to keep people through love. Despite imperfections, sins, and irritating habits of other Christians, they belong to Jesus and they need our love as a healthy climate for growth.
This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.
Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.
The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions.
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
When the road looks rough ahead, remember the 'Man upstairs' and the word HOPE. Hang onto both and 'tough it out'.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.