J.J. Brown Quotes

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

We get up in the morning feeling tired. Sometimes we feel good, sometimes bad, but we go through it with feeling. That's the root to the truth, that's where everything starts

We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.

You'd be sick if you saw my adidas collection...you would be physically sick if you saw it. I'm not gonna say where it is.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.

We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.

Your success is determined by how much you can really learn from your failures.

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.

Concealers are like undergarments. They make you feel taller and thinner.

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.

Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

Do my movement and my thinking have an intimate connection? First of all, I don't think my body doesn't think.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court

No one rises to low expectations

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.

Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.

When you're feeling terrific, notify your face.

Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.

Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.