John Quotes

Cats will outsmart dogs every time.

Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.

The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?"

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

It's not what the dream is but what the dream does.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

We become what we think about most.

At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.

All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Take any problem in life and it will fall under one of three categories... money, health or relationships.

Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

To break training without permission is an act of treason.

Real possession football, this. And Zico's lost it

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.

I think many times we charge the Lord for things we can do ourselves. If only we realized how well we have been equipped.

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.

If there is to be a competition, there must be some basis for resolving it. It is also clear that the competition should be experienced based.

Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.

I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

To give importance to trifling matters.

Don't put the cart before the horse.