Eric Johnston Quotes

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer.

Eric Johnston

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• One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Change

• We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Character
  • Book
  • Best

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • Peace
  • Happiness

• All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Powerful
  • Vote
  • Our

• Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Live
  • Learn

• I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Want
  • You
  • Style

• I can't stand recipes that don't have background.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Stand
  • Background
  • Recipes

• I am an Indian, so I do yoga.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Yoga
  • Indian

• Ever since we published the first Apple report, we've had some other brands turning more proactive.

  

  Ma Jun
  • First
  • Apple
  • Proactive

• Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Feel
  • Start

• They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Mind
  • Lose
  • Grow

• The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive light, there must have been light to enter it.

  

  Louis Agassiz
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Purpose

• The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Girl

• When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Action

• I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Life

• I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Education

• Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

  

  Mary Pierce
  • Winning

• Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

  

  Vicomte Delaunay
  • Men
  • Power
  • Society

• The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

  

  Peter Stuyvesant
  • Long
  • Design

• Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

  

  James Cash Penney
  • Improvement

• There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • Long
  • Business
  • Space

• Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Life
  • Work
  • Business

• If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer.

  

  Eric Johnston
  • Business
  • Sell
  • Roses