James Cash Penney Quotes
No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
-
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
-
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
-
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
-
I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
-
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
-
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
-
I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
-
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
-
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
-
I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
-
As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
-
Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
-
When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
-
Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
-
I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
-
I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
-
People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
-
The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.
-
Making a bougie, expensive beauty brand wasn't helping the mission or very fun for me. We can all be united by that $12 coconut balm. You don't need to charge an arm and a leg.
-
I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
-
The 1930s was a funny time. People knew they might not live for another six months, so if they were attracted to one another, there was no time to dawdle.
-
Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.
-
No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.
