JB Carlson Quotes

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

So a lot of me is still a little kid, and I think that kind of helps alter my sense of reality - it makes me able to just become Belle every single night.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

Your children are your legacy to the world. As you raise them with love, you contribute to making this world a better place.

The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death.

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice, but you don't take him seriously. That is Canada.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

The best way to get a move to work is to make it so uncomfortable that the opponent gives it to you to stop the pain.

If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory

Forcing victims of sexual harassment into secret arbitration proceedings is wrong because it means that nobody ever finds out what really happened.

There is no reward without sacrifice.

Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.

Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.

I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new skills.

Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.

Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai

If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions.

If say 90% of Christian marriages were intact, people would be writing about it.

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.

Life can change in a moment, so we must appreciate every single day we are given.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado!

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.

My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can too.

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

If you Google me, you'll find plenty of "dumb blonde" references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me.

Self esteem is built from the inside out and that is my inspiring message to all people.

we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.