Jo Robinson Quotes

Remember, this is your day and your world.

It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.

Nothing was ever normal again.Many lives change like that -- all of a sudden, and forever.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth

It's better to have nothing, ' the children were saying.

There is no such thing as a beauty contest . . . Beauty is noncompetitive. Beauty of any kind stands alone, unmatched, inimitable, uncontested.

For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion.

An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.

A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.

The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

In the Darwinian environment of business, one's most provocative words are naturally selected by competitors to be hurled back at them at the most inopportune moments. Do not arm your adversaries.

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.

When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.

Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler did not solve an old problem, they asked a new question, and in doing so they changed the whole basis on which the old questions had been framed.

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads.

Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salient from the Pleistocene point of view.

As Americans, we must protect our humanity while fighting terrorism. It we lose that…they have surely won.

We are moved to respond to the fact of human brilliance, human depth in all its variety because it is the most wonderful thing in the world, very probably the most wonderful thing in the universe.

I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.

Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown.

In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.

Surround yourself with 'yay-sayers' not naysayers.

Most people do not see their words as power.

Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.

History was once rewritten by the victors. Now we write our own immutable histories with every email, text, and post.

...with electronic communication, what one writes in a moment, eternity will not erase.

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

The undistracted experience of affects of just about any sort, when free of practical consequences, appears to have intrinsic appeal for many of us.

What we seem to perceive influences what we feel, and what we feel influences what we say we perceive

[L]anguage cannot match music's subtlety and preciseness of expression.

My heart is a harness of nothing, deflated balloon, and a place of loss.

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.

I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined.

Ambition is like a plague that can only be cured by success.

The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written!

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Creativity is as important as literacy

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

Great people never sleep because their dreams keep them awake and striving.

Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

And I'd pray for them. And I'd imagine peace they couldn't expect and couldn't account for descending on their illness or their quarreling or their dreams.

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

Trust is just a choice. Someone can’t earn your trust if you don’t choose to let them, to give them the chance to show you.

her grass seemed greener until a drought cameand cracked the earth beneath you.