Jo Jordan Quotes

You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.

I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it, as well.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.

There are things worth fighting for.

Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.

Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change

Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles.

The key to success is failure

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

Failure makes me work even harder.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

I will never step foot in the Octagon

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think

You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.

Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

What can't be changed must be endured.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

Being queen is overrated.

Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit.

Work ethics eliminates fear.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

But nobody ever tells you in advance when you should concentrate on the good times-that's why you're supposed to do it every day.

A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!

If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

I'm all about challenges and seeing if I can go out and see if I can achieve something. If at the end of the day I do it, great. If I don't, I can live with myself.

If you don't smell nice before the game, it's going to be pretty bad during and after.