Jo Stafford Quotes

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

Find a need and fill it.

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

APPRECIATION IN ANY FORM AT ANY TIME BRIGHTENS ANYONE'S EXISTENCE.

The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

If you purify the pond, the lilies die

And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.

I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone's heart and to feel it in your own.

Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you are going to respond to life.

Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.

There are three answers to prayer: yes, no, and wait a while. It must be recognized that no is an answer.

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

Instead of trying to specify a system in full detail, specify it only somewhat. You can then ride on the dynamics of the system in the direction you want to go.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?

Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

Live one day without any unhealthy thoughts. It may be very difficult, but try another day until it becomes habitual, and life will move in the direction of becoming healthy, vital and alive.

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.

It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.

It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.

A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.

The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.

When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.

Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!