John Quotes

Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

Every journey toward a dream is personal, and as a result, so is the price that must be paid for it.

If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?

Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.

Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.

When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

People who love life have charisma because they fill the room with positive energy.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.

Birds of a feather really do flock together.

God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.

I did not call for the extermination of people, but of ideas.

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.

In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.

We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not.

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

I would enjoy the fact that I had a team that won a national title, but I would be disappointed that none of the kids got drafted because that's not how it's supposed to work.

I know who I am. I don't see myself as this whoever they see me as.

After you have put food on your table, make sure you invest in really good walking shoes and a good bed.

In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.

Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.

There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.

Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.

While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.

If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.

It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

The success of an entire advertising campaign may stand or fall on what is said in the headlines of the individual advertisements.

It's fascinating to watch the progress that is made during previews. The coolest thing is watching the actors take over the show, and make it there own.

I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.

I'm always involved with casting my movies. I have final word on it.

When I started making films, I wanted to make Frank Capra pictures. But I've never been able to make anything but these crazy, tough pictures. You are what you are.

I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.