J.D. Young Quotes

Nothing in life is ritual.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.

I'm an accidental writer.

Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.

Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.

I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.

The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

I am especially fond of you.

True love never forces.

I'm way different than I was last year. You learn something new every year. I learned a whole lot from last season and a whole lot from this season. I'm still learning.

Hard work has paid off a whole lot.

There are a lot of guys who have terrible throwing motions-worse than mine. But they still get the ball downfield. That's all that matters.

People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.

All I have to do is play football now.

I can do whatever it takes to win.

Whatever it takes to get everybody loose, I'm going to do it!

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.

I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I been doing music my whole life.

I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years.

When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.

The end is here, and you don't want be here. You are the best in the world at something, and you know you are not going to be that great at anything else.

In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a part of this'

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.

I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?

Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.

I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.

If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a lap steel and a nylon string up there, but who wants to keep up with all that?

I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough.

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both.