Jimmy Johnson Quotes
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.
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We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.
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I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
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Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
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I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.
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When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.
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If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.
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Off-Off-Broadway is absolutely necessary. It doesn't have to be sanctioned by the state, subsidized or anything. The plank and the passion is what it's about.
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Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.
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If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.
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I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.
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Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.
