John Quotes

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

Change needs practice. And practice needs patience.

The clearer you are about why you want to accomplish a goal, the easier it will be to figure how to accomplish it.

My role as CEO is to protect the company AND nurture it to grow.

Stop me when I'm making too much sense.

The role of a leader is to serve his people. We absolutely must first serve the people who we want to lead. They must be able to rely on the leader as much as we hope to rely on them.

When your team questions your motives and methods, you have lost their trust and you will not be able to influence them.

If your team does not truly believe that you care about them, they will not follow you.

When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.

Life will always change, and I'm always thinking about how to have a good-enough attitude to roll with the changes of life, of an ever-changing landscape.

I try to remember at least twenty to thirty things I'm grateful for every day, and I share those with at least one person that I am super grateful for.

Yoga really helped with stress relief and just not hurting myself when I tour. It really was super helpful.

I've learned that each day is definitely a gift. When my dad died, I made sure I said everything to him. I realized that once he's gone, he's gone. No matter how angry or resentful or whatever.

Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me feel vulnerable.

My kids and my wife make me feel vulnerable.

...The evidence that fluoridation of the public water supply at the rate of one part per million is carcinogenic is irrefutable.

The day I got called up to the majors I wasn't feeling well. I had gone out with my friends for 'sodas' the night before.

People will think what they want to," he said quietly. Never take too much notice of it.

I said, names aren't important," he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?" Will shook his head. "Supper is important!

Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.

You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." Erak to Halt.

Idiots, Halt muttered. If we were here to cause trouble, we could simply ride them both down

Problems postponed have a habit of solving themselves

But if we’re going to kill them all, we might as well make an occasion of it.” Toshak shrugged. “Do as you wish,” he said. “Occasion or not, as long as they’re all dead, I’m happy.

Sometimes, he thought, all you could do was wait.

Face your fears, Halt had always thought him, and more often than not they fade like mist in the sunshine

He didn't look back. He never did

As he poured carefully, Arrow's head turned toward the sound. The horse made a low grumbling noise in his throat. "Hold your horses," he said. The he laughed. It seemed absurd to say tat to a horse.

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

You may believe you're an excellent rider," he called, "but there are a score of Temujai back there who actually are.

Fanatics," Halt said. "Don't you just love 'em?

It was not polite for a Temujai general to allow his emotions to show.

You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one.

If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

It's not what I expected," he said. "They're far more organized than our intelligence had led us to believe.

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

He could bear the dying, but not the disappointment.

She knew more about these situations than she realized, he thought. She'd spent years at Duncan's side. "When in doubt," he added, "be pompous.

The mace prodded Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.

Arm there," she said. "Other arm, idiot. Now hand there...okay, ready? We're going to start with your left foot. On three. One. Two... What the devil is he doing here?

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

Let's face it, she can't have simply disappeared...can she?" Horace shrugged. "That's what I keep telling myself," he said morosley. "But somehow it looks as if she has.

Hunting party," Horace said Both Halt and Will looked at him sarcastically. "You think?" Will said. "Maybe they found the deer and brought him back to repair him.

He smiled as Will handled the flask gingerly. 'there's a glass bottle inside,but it's padded with straw and protected by the leather covering. It's quite safe. Just be careful how you handle it.

Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.

Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.'

That's what I call 'Guiliani Time', my friends. 'We've got a problem. Let's kill it.'

To a lot of people, angels are a matter of faith.

It sucks to think about, honestly, but when you really consider the resources that it takes to press vinyl records, or the amount of gas that it takes to tour, it's really quite scary.