J. J. Hardy Quotes

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.

The key that unlocks your greatness is deliberate, disciplined and consistent effort.

What controls your attention, controls your life

It’s amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.

Hang out with those who have a common FUTURE with you; not a common past.

To achieve what you have not, you must become what you are not. You have to GROW into your goals.

Don't fake it till you make it. Be real, be transparent, be authentic and be yourself.

There is one thing that 99 percent of 'failures' and 'successful' folks have in common - they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.

The early bird gets the worm, the rest starve.

The thought, 'I can't' is a lie. We use it to excuse ourselves from trying.

People don't resent you for being brave. They resent themselves for being afraid.

A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

Good work is not done by 'humble' men

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

Why don't people just accept that life is sad and cheer up? After all, it's not going to last for ever.

If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

All romances end at marriage.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

The defective can be more than the entire.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

I set myself that decision, otherwise I'm driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you're an idiot. I don't want to force-feed you my opinion.

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

Done because we are too many.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

Always wanting another man than your own.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

Everything you need to be great is already inside you. Stop waiting for someone or something to light your fire. You have the match.

Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff

The organization will always mirror the behavior, habits, attitude, mindset and pace of the leader.

Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of champion habits.

We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

Fear doesn't prevent death, but it certainly prevents life.

There is not the management of time, there is only the management of you.

There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.

Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.

You are judged by what you produce, not what you said, intended or wanted to produce. It's Friday, add up the numbers. How'd you do?

Success is not only the financial wealth you accumulate, it is also about being a leader, improving your relationships, living healthfully, and making a real difference in the world.

Decide now that you are worthy of great wealth and it will be your first step toward great prosperity

Become very conscious of every choice you make today so you can begin to make smarter choices moving forward.

It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.

Almost every great achievement began with someone finally getting ticked off, saying, 'Enough!' and standing up to fight.

It’s not getting to the wall that counts; it’s what you do after you hit it.