Jim Quotes

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

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

I've never been the type of guy that had a lot of friends or was part of the cool group.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Yeah the appetizer, that's the food we eat before we have our food...No no you're thinking of dessert, that's food we eat after we have our food.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality...

Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

If you're not living a life on the edge you're taking up too much space! ... You learn the most when you're out of your comfort zone!

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.

We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

I never met a lasagna I didn't like

I am pleased to launch the Friends of Thailand Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

Accuracy builds credibility.