Jim Quotes

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'

Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.

What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know

Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

You're kind of numb after 50 shots to the head.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow.

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon.

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

Follow your enthusiasm. It's something I've always believed in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what you enjoy doing.

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.

I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He cannot resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him.

Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.

Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have.

Just remember, their fans think their players are supermen. We'll we're the kryptonite, and we're going to win.

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.

It's hard to steer a parked car.

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you.

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.