Jo Robinson Quotes

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.

This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

If you can refine your skills and eliminate your mistakes, you will start winning. That's the price you must pay to be successful in wrestling, and in most aspects of life.

Do you hear the children singing?

I have a sense that South Africa is my other country apart from my native country that I particularly love, [that I] want to see succeed, and I did really want my message to be listened to.

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

I remember my first check that I got for a thousand dollars, and where I grew up, I never thought I'd have a thousand dollars at one time.

I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.

But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.

Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.

It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.

It is impossible to add the stock of money to the flow of saving.

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God

Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker.

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

Hickory dickory dock, I just want to be your clock. Just set me for a lifetime, and I'll wake you up every morning.

Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.

What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.

Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights.

You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner.

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?

... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.

We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

Surround yourself with good people that keep you grounded, work hard, and be patient.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

honesty is hard work.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.