Van Jones Quotes

I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.

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• People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Day

• There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• I've always been a sharing person.

  

  Young Thug
  • Always
  • Person
  • Sharing

• But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Me
  • Personal
  • Fascination

• Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Nature
  • My Life

• Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • Power
  • Often

• From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Work
  • Career
  • Single

• To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Credit

• He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Mad

• They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • World
  • Knowledge

• Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • God
  • Men
  • Jesus

• What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Quote
  • Orange
  • Section

• Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Oxygen
  • Acid
  • Sulfur

• Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Action

• Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

  

  Curtis Mayfield
  • School
  • Fool
  • Educated

• Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Love
  • Help
  • Wise

• As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Information
  • Understood
  • Mature

• I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Fashion
  • Retreat
  • Cave

• What if at school you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to pain a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it...Of course this sounds ridiculous, but this is how math is taught.

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Doubt
  • Learn
  • Math

• Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Obedience
  • Command

• It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made himself an emperor. In fact, a lot of revolutionary leaders do that, and you think, "Well, that's spoiling your argument. What are you doing?" But on the other hand, the people themselves are enjoying trying out all these different ways to be. I hope that, like the Japanese, the Chinese hang on to their own traditions as well as try out Western ones. I hate it when people just lose so much confidence in who they are that they abandon their own culture.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hate

• I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.

  

  Van Jones
  • Demand
  • Command
  • Underdog