Jim Quotes
Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.
But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
But be very, very careful, because when you're playing with momentum, you're playing with fire.
I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.
Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.
The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.
I don't believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.
The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God.
Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.
If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.
I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
I believe that when we write things down, we being the process of activating the fundamentals in our lives.
The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.
Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.
From testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that IT'S POSSIBLE TO DESIGN AND LIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE
Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do.
Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.
Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.
Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing.
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.
We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.
The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'
Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to find good situations and exploit them.
Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.
Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.