Ed Gordon Quotes

I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about

This place is full of unwritten rules.

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

Let us stand a little taller, if you don't, you will never strengthen yourself

I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.

Do you want to be happy? Forget yourself and get lost in this great cause.

All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship.

I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.

We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.

I feel like I'm getting to be a better driver every day.

Tremendous happiness and peace of mind are the results of loving service to others. Nobody can live fully and happily who lives only unto himself or herself.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

The business model of racing is not a pretty one.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Don't be gloomy. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. [Life is about] joy,... something to be happy and excited about.

Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.

Don't face the facts.

Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.

If the inspiration is genuine and it's coming from the right place, that's what I like and want to be a part of.

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."

The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.

It's quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your food.

Polygamists have no connection with us whatsoever. They don't belong to the church. There are actually no Mormon fundamentalists.

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

I want players who are always striving to improve.

Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.

Father forgive us, for we do not what we know.

I'm definitely not a science nerd, I'll say that. That was not my forte at school.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.

If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.

Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner.

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

If we will concentrate on the best, that element will grow until it sparkles.

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.