John Quotes

The fans have been great, they've stuck with me through a lot of hit-less years and I think they were as determined as I was that it was time to put an end to the lack of hits.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.

There are two types of computer languages; those that people hate and those that nobody uses.

Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known.

Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings.

In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.

Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level—and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change.

I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.

No vision issue today is bigger than the question of efficiency versus some combination of innovation and customer service.

If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't

I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .

The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.

If you have a ton of counterpoints, complex harmony, all these tricky things going on, it makes things less accessible to people.

It's not about being digital. It's about students who are born digital.

Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world.

I like the way you can stretch things out and leave a huge amount of space that, on a record, would feel like silence. I enjoy the possibilities.

In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser. To be a winner, we must devote time and hard work. To be a loser you do nothing, and that's exactly what you will get, nothing.

dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank you for my life.

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.

Art is a journey of discovery.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.

Seeing creates growth.

My mantra is, 'This or something better.'

A good question has many answers.

The best plans evolve.

Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.

It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something.

How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?

The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question in the most important way?'

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both.

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.

Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

Looking and seeing are two different things.

The frame frames a frame of mind.

By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.

I make the majority of my money from Patron, but my passion is with Paul Mitchell: I spend 85 per cent of my time on it.

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.