John Quotes

Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.

The imagination is like a muscle: it strengthens through use.

Coca-Cola can get really fresh output because it is getting people who are outside the traditional model and they are combining ideas in very novel ways.

Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.

The world is too brutal for me—I am glad there is such a thing as the grave—I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Here lies one whose name was writ on water.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

The secret of happiness is something to do

Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name

Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

I do think the barsThat kept my spirit in are burst - that IAm sailing with thee through the dizzy sky!How beautiful thou art!

Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

No one can usurp the heights...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest.

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity...

The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.

Success is...knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, andsowing seeds that benefit others.

Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good, " they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.

Success is more than just power or not violating the rights of others it is the privilege of contributing to the betterment of others.

There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning.

Remove yourself, sir!

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent