Jo Robinson Quotes

Now I've probably got to be more aggressive and pick up where [Marbury] left off, but I'm just going to take it how it comes. I'm not going to force it. I'm going to let the game come to me.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

If you live in a global world and you want to champion liberty in it, then you have you got to sign up to that global world.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

To live with God is to live always in the present, with him who is the eternal Now.

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces

Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.

That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all.

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we decided to call him and he was more than willing to participate with me. I just thank God for him.

I like unkempt; I don't mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.

There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.

From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.

Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you?

I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.

Hurting people is my business.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue.

In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back.

Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?

The one thing about God that's so beautiful is He is omnipotent, and He is the Almighty. But He's not a dictator.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.