P.J. Gordon Quotes

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.

Let me know if you're going to do something stupid, kid, 'cause I'll ditch you like that.

That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?

Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.

It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

I do believe that actions often speak louder than words.

Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.

Every startup CEO should understand Gamification, because gaming is the new normal.

I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.

In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

Gamification is as important as social and mobile.*

Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

For digital natives, public schools are jails

I believe in books. I believe more in cross-media - how characters are adapting across mediums.

If you dont measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

Fundamentals in the gaming sector remained relatively healthy during the first quarter.

Your soul needs a Lover more than your floor needs carpet.

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.

Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything.

Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession becomes who they are.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.

When you see somebody actually be able to channel that into an accessible, beautiful tool, you start to see the craftsman behind it.

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

Jazz to me is a living music.

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

It's interesting because I laugh and tell people when I give speeches, ' I know what y'all think, oh we love Ed, but he's kinda stuck up or he's kinda this or he's kinda that.'

I was two votes away from class clown in high school.

I've got a buddy who will not watch me because he'll say 'I don't know who that dude is.'

Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January [2017] and that might be an interesting story to tell.

One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.

I want to find those stories that we may talk about at the barbecue or when we're playing bid whist or with our cousins watching TV, but you don't see it on television. Certainly it's perspective.

I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about.

I think the best comparable is Bryant Gumbel's "Real Sports," in the sense that it's quarterly as well. So that's what we're doing, a quarterly special, an hour, three to four stories each hour.

I feel like, I mean, there's no new wheel, you know. A newsmagazine is what it is.

I understand what the dynamic of the brand Ed Gordon has been all these years. I'm just trying to keep that as real and as honest as I can and I don't take it lightly.

Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for your anger.