Jo Jones Quotes

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard.

I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.

To right, the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from a-far, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.

Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.

Success is a state of mind, waiting for action.

I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.

Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

I had a soft spot for crazy people.

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

I had rather get a root canal without anesthesia than to call your customer service office for help.

Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside.

I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the ordinary.

A people’s art is the genesis of their freedom.

Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.

I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading.

And everybody’s running around talking about ‘Zionists’ all day. Okay, just keep parroting that over and over again.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream?

I hate sitting in traffic, because I always get run over.

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

If you're depressed and called Morgan spend the first half of the day in Germany for some positive affirmation.

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.

The world is an astounding place, and we can see it every day, if we're open to it.

A heart's a heavy burden.

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

You don't build a bond without being present.

There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.

I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation