John Quotes

You just promised me eternity, you know. I can make you live to regret it.

Barely awake and already starting in with the questions.You were alot easier to take when you were sleeping." - Rio to Dylan

He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.

It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay.

Harvard just took that option out of our hands. He is truly on his own now.

Thank you for bringing me home.

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.

It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.

The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

Ultimately, the impresario must know when to simply get out of the way.

In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only there to make sure that happens. That is a very different type of management mind-set.

People must get respect for their new ideas.

Performers may play in the studio, but they need to go out and tour every once in a while to keep their edge, or a performer who is a stranger may be asked to "sit in" on a set.

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

Conducting a creativity audit can be very illuminating because it can tell you how the process is working internally and against the competition.

If you come up with a new product, you can very easily track its contribution to the bottom line. But often the challenge can be both large and subtle.

The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities.

The larger the price tag, the more you have to adopt what I call the postmodern management approach. What I mean by that is that you have to use everything when you make a decision.

The impresario's job is to pick the right people who can pick the right people. He picks the people who can pick artists and relate to them. People who know what the market craves.

The C.E.O.'s job in a creativity-driven company is to be an impresario, not a manager.

Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting.

The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.

The manager's job - the impresario's job - is to preside over the company's efforts to jam so the business runs really well.

I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation.

Looking back, I have to say that I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people. Unfortunately, a lot of them are gone. But I look back and, yeah, I have had a really great career!

I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.

It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.

Kids haven't changed - you have.

We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.

I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

When you ask people, do they believe that we ought to have trade, I think people understand it's important.

People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements.

As long as the White House is deadly serious, which they tell me they are, I'll help them anyway I can.

Look, we have a very lousy system for retraining workers that get disrupted.

We need a dramatic improvement in the way we train people who get displaced.

Furthermore, when there is cheating, the cheating needs to be called. And I see that the administration has become much more aggressive on that front [of retraining people who get displaced].

If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

I don't accept that. I really don't care - I'm going to be like one of these deniers - I don't care what the polls say.

I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not."

When there is cheating, the cheating needs to be called.

A lot of politicians now, here's what they're worried about. If you're a Democrat you're worried about your base on the left, and if you're a Republican you're worried about your base on the right.

I don't read polls to decide what I'm going to do.