John Quotes

Great performers welcome pressure.

Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.

Give humanity hope and it will dare and suffer joyfully, not counting the cost - hope with laughter on her banner and on her face the fresh beauty of morning.

There's always an asterisk behind somebody's name who hasn't won the Super Bowl. There shouldn't be, but that's kind of the way history works.

There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now.

I would have loved to have played for Joe Gibbs. Look at his record of winning three Super Bowls.

I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.

We get done with the game, and it's an absolute downpour 30 minutes later. That's when I thought God was telling me that's enough-time for you to go do something else

I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.

Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

I expect my next job to be outside government.

Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4.

I can honestly say that being a United States senator has been the honor of my life.

I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our senior population - especially the oldest and sickest.

The possibility of endangering Nevadans will never happen under my watch. I will do everything I can to protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.

If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.

The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.

Through God, everyone sparkles.

The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.

Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness.

If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.

The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it would require much digging to disclose them.

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.

Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Be aware of danger-but recognize the opportunity

If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

The most ideal approach to advance is the way of opportunity.

Life isn't fair. In never was and never will be.

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.