J.J. Brown Quotes

Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

Love is a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them - we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

Be ready and willing to be a beginner every morning. That's how you grow and step into your greatness

In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’

No-one ever votes Tory, do they?

Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between 'I should' and 'I did.'

If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens.

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

If you like soggy cereal, then we not friends.

We don't have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions.

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

When it comes to success, it will come when it comes. A delay does not mean a denial.

I don't know karate, but I know crazy.

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

Pretty Powerful symbolises my belief that all women are pretty, and with the right tools, are empowered to a higher level of pretty - it's about being confident and about being who you are

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may.

Just because a woman has a pimp doesn't necessarily mean that she's being abused by the guy. You can't know for sure.

Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others.

We only get what we believe that we deserve. Raise the bar, raise your standards and you will receive a better outcome.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

...what we need is action - action!

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.