J.M. Williams Quotes

Most ads are about the product or the company that makes it...the best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his life.

Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.

Embarrassment, or the risk of it, accompanies all your important choices.

Most ads are ignored because every customer has a mental filter that evaluates and dismisses both of these languages of Ad-Speak with a single question: What are they not telling me?

Passion doesn't create commitment; commitment creates passion. To what are you committed?

i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones.

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

I know a lot of people who are 12 and doing things they shouldnt be doing. Whether youre an actress or a singer, its always the sexier ones that are selling more tickets or selling more albums.

I'm always learning new things.

I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing.

I love hitting aces. It's not easy, but it makes your life a lot easier.

I've always considered myself the best and the top. I never considered that I was out of it.

I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

If you're going to teach a child, teach him properly.

My Nan had a plastic hip put in, but I thought she should have replaced it with a Slinky, 'cause if she fell down the stairs again.

I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give.

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think.

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.

Our correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once opened, a connection is made. We are not alone in the world.

The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.

When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision.

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

I've always found the rain very calming.

I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.

That which you fear the most will meet you half way.

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.

Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.

As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.

All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.

Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.

An increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling.

The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.

Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

Nothing whips my blood like verse.

Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again

Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow

No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.

Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.