J. J. Johnson Quotes

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

Ask yourself every couple of minutes, 'Can I go harder? Can I do more?' You've got so much power. Show me.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.

Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.

Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.

If you think you know it all, you are not listening.

We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

Heaven invades earth when there is agreement here to what exists there. Honestly, that's how it happens.

A heart of faith is anchored in the unseen

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

There's Michael [Jordan], then there's the rest of us.

Getting lost is not a waste of time.

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

A losing football team looks at excuses. A championship football team looks at solutions.

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin.

The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Temptation out of reach does you no good.

I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.

Finding inner success is the best, easiest and infact the only way to achieve and enjoy everything else in life.

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Naming an emotion begins the process of regulating it and reflecting on it.

Don't ever knock a bottle out of my hand.

I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.