James Cash Penney Quotes

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

James Cash Penney

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• Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Problem
  • Planning
  • Housing

• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Work
  • Live
  • Dream

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Right
  • Scientific

• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Way
  • Find
  • Volume

• I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Real
  • Age
  • Want

• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Equality
  • I Believe

• I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • May
  • Today
  • Hate

• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Sky
  • Looking

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Political

• I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Know
  • Worry
  • Temple

• I'm a director because I directed a movie. And if I have any advice for people, it's, 'Go write something; go direct it. If that's what you have a desire to do, go do it. If the movie stinks, just put it on the shelf and try to do it again.'

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • People
  • Movie
  • Desire

• It took years and a lot of diligence on my part. But I've formed my own thing, and now I get people who are surprised to find out he's my dad. I dreamed that would happen, and it has: I'm no longer introduced to people as Brian Williams' daughter.

  

  Allison Williams
  • People
  • Dad
  • Daughter

• I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Long
  • Character
  • Job

• I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

  

  Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • Life
  • Believe
  • May

• And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Want

• No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

  

  James Cash Penney
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Power