J. J. Johnson Quotes

Get a grip, get a life, and get over it.

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience

President Can't Swim.

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

I’d love to have an opportunity to tie the greats in Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr.

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn't want me here either.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.

Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

The only thing you can never change is your values.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

Anytime I'm on the field and my teammates are on the field with me, I just want them to have fun.

I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.

Violets are God's apology for February.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

All envy is proportionate to desire.

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.

I think that ISIS is a problem and it's really a symptom of a much greater problem.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

The main thing (about the organization) is to enjoy motorcycles, ..and have a good relationship with the community.

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.