J.J. Brown Quotes
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard.
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life time for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain
I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win hold or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.
…her mom's faith wasn't just about God healing her, it was about God's sovereignty in her life. She had faith that God is, and will always be, who He says He is in His Word.
TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.
Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.
I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.
Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
I'm keeping the pixie. I hope I inspire people... it's really cool to have short hair.
Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.
I'm cool with people dressing up as Eleven for Halloween. I definitely want to open my door and give them candy.
Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.
Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250, 000 in Britain.
The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.
What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.
I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.
Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.
Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.
Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.
I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life... and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
I've learned that I am allowed to say what I like and what I don't like. And I've learned that I have to be professional and not be everyone's best friend.
Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well, ' and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that's an amazing feeling.
It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don't have to worry about getting even with anybody or taking out any kind of aggression on anybody. Doing that is a weakness, anyway.
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.
It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.
Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.
We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.
Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to.
