Joe Louis Quotes

I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.

Joe Louis

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• I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Way
  • Religion
  • Problems

• I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Real

• If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Day
  • Positive

• The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Different
  • Guy
  • Kind

• I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Life
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Name

• My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Reason

• I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • People
  • Earth
  • Luckiest

• Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Words
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• I try to do as much as I can, but I simply can't shoot two films at a time.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Try
  • I Can

• Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Greatest
  • Eating

• Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Better

• I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Mind
  • Why

• We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Why
  • Single

• This strategy aims directly at a reannexation of the Southwest, not militarily, but ethnically, linguistically and culturally through transfer of millions of Mexicans into the United States and a migration of 'Anglos' out of the lands Mexico lost in 1848. In California, the project is well advanced.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Lost
  • California

• The secret of love is in opening up your heart.It's okay to feel afraid,But don't let that stand in your way, no.'Cause anyone knows that love is the only road.And since we're only here for a while yeahMight as well show some style.

  

  James Taylor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Style

• Here sit I, as a little child; The threshold of God's door Is that clear band of chrysoprase; Now the vast temple floor, The blinding glory of the dome I bow my head before. Thy universe, O God, is home, In height or depth, to me; Yet here upon thy footstool green Content am I to be; Glad when is oped unto my need Some sea-like glimpse of Thee.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • God
  • Home
  • Universe

• I lost my mind at 15. I'd been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, 'This is great!' Then that was gone. But I was like, 'Yeah, but I still want that.' I'd lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • World
  • Great
  • Mind

• The only subversive mind is the one that questions the obligation to exist; all the others, the anarchist at the top of the list, compromise with the established order.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Mind

• A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Rose

• The best thing that is happening to us is that we have a day off. We have kind of lost our game.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Game
  • Best Thing

• I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.

  

  Joe Louis