Jim Quotes

Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us.

Aim high! The future you see, is the person you will be

My kids are always awake. It's they're taking shifts. 'Alright, I'll annoy 'em from midnight to . Who wants to ?'

You cannot petition the lord with prayer!

We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.

You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there. After that, it's debatable.

Conceive the inconceivable - then accomplish it.

As your life is in His hands, so are the days of your life. But don’t let the sands of time get into the eye of your vision to reach those who sit in darkness. They simply must hear.

I couldn’t have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!

No one gets out of here alive.

Isn't it strange -- when you're single, all you see is couples, and when you're part of a couple, all you see are hookers.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.

Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day's divinity! First thing you see!!

We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.

There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.

The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you.

There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become.

Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.

Doubt is the enemy of success.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama, come on over here.

When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it.

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.

Doesn’t the God who created the universe out of nothing and put all the stars in place, have the power to take care of your situation?

A lot of young people dont think they can make a difference. Thats really what I am at Dartmouth to do. Im there to tell the young people, Look, a few committed souls can change the world.

Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

On quiet nights, when I'm alone, I like to run our wedding video backwards, just to watch myself walk out of the church a free man.

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner

When in doubt, pig out!

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

You don't lead by lip service, you lead by example.

The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."

Music is your only friend until the end...

Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.