James Cash Penney Quotes
No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.
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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.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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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.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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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.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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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.
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I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.
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I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.
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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
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I'm not a complainer, I'm a doer.
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My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'
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No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.
