Jim Quotes

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Wherever you are - be all there.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

I love people, I really do. I'm a people person. I think that's a strength of mine. I love being around people, especially in a team setting.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

God built the world, but he did not know it was round.

I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.