A. D. Gordon Quotes
Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.
I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.
Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others
Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
The greatest accomplishment of a bartender lies in his ability to exactly suit his customer. . .
Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.
Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.
The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.
Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.
Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.
My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.
I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.
Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.
Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.
Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.
The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.
Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.
Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.
Whatever you do, do well. Be good at it. Stand a little taller. Be a little stronger. Be a little better.
Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.
You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)
You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.
Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.
No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.
Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.
So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.