A. C. Dixon Quotes

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.

Motivation is a battle for the heart, not just an appeal to the mind. Passion is always an expression of the soul.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more.

It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

All I want to do is drink beer and train like an animal.

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

I see you watching me like a hawk. I don't mind about the things you talk. But if you touch me something's got to give. I live the life I love and I love the life I live.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.

It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet.

It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.

Fear sees a ceiling. Hope sees the stars.

When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.

Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.

The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.

When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.

By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?

Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it.

All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.

I am walking today because of chiropractic care I received years ago. I predict a great future for the science of chiropractic.

Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you - be futurewise.

Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.

The future is about emotion: reactions to events are usually far more important than the events themselves.

People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.

I've never been a goalscorer, only own goals. Good own goals.

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

We must realize our own talents and, having realized, accept them; and play on them like a symphony in which all other instruments are harmonized to make a better universe.

I'd much rather go out having America shocked than having America go, 'Eh, it was his time.'

On stage I'm basically spiritually feeding all of these people in the audience, and making sure they're encouraged to connect with God.

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

He who obeys the command 'Rejoice in the Lord' has a Hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night.

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here.

The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

Life is too short to waste on things that don't matter.