Jo Jordan Quotes

If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I approached everything step by step.

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

Be optimistic about everything in life.

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact.

It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

If I see another David Gold interview on the poor East End Jewish boy done good I'll impale myself on one of his dildos.

It's always been said that when I can't find a way to do anything, I will find a way to do it.

She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

I know what's within me even if you can't see it yet...I have something more important than courage, I have patience. I will become what I know I am.

Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation

When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.

I want to play for years.

I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail.

I've never been afraid to fail.

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

I don't go out and just try to score. I score because there is an opportunity to score.

Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.

I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.

We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

Winning isn't always championships.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.

I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet.

What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.

I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.

I am competing with what I am capable of.

I'd take 12 guys who had a strong passion for the game over 12 guys who don't respect the game.

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.