J. J. Johnson Quotes

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.

Energy is a state of mind. Tell yourself you're tired and you will be. Tell yourself you feel great and you will

It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.

If you can’t be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are unlikely to be happy about anything

A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life

When I'm under the gun and I've got pressure on me, I don't panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Your future is not determined by the conditions around you. It is determined by your faith, your choices, and your efforts

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

You can't get AIDS if you touch, hug, kiss, hold hands with someone who is infected. Don't be afraid of us - we are all the same!

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto the new.

It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.

Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.

The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith.

We need to remain childlike. Children don't dream of being insignificant.

I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

I am who I am and I don't think you can put a label on it.

Kevin Kelly, let The Rock answer your question with a question of his own: Are you mentally, as well as physically prepared to tickle the anus of a monkey?

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

If ya' smell what The Rock is cookin'!

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Invest your time with people who will push you to be your best. Winners love to see other people win.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

There's something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.