John Quotes
Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.
Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.
All of marketing consists in creating relationships. Real relationships: friends, lovers, partners, warriors, fans.
Any time you're playing a playoff-caliber team, it is always good to show well, because you don't know when you'll be seeing them again.
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.
If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.
Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.
You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.
Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.
I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.
A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.
No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.
After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.
As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.
It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.
Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.
Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.
I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.
All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place
John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.
You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.
Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.
The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.
I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.
Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel.
There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm goin'
If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.