J.M. Williams Quotes

If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. It's a "cause" with an impact that reaches beyond your personal wants and needs.

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

My dreams kept me trying when I could have quit.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

People who are 'different' are usually the ones that end up making a difference in the world.

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

There is no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution

A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.

I believe you can do 99 percent of the things right but not possess a positive winning attitude, and you will fail.

Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.

Remember to enjoy everything. The things that feel good, the things that hurt. It’s all gonna make you better. Stronger.

Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

If you want to win, you've got to change.

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

To win you must pay the price. If you haven't won you haven't paid the price.

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet--within the chambers of a quivering heart.

To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

I got girls that can cook, I got girls that can clean, I got girls that'll do anything between.

Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.