Van Jones Quotes

Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.

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• I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • Just

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Good
  • Education
  • Theatre

• Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Thinking
  • First
  • Kiss

• Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Way

• But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Black

• In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I'm not in this sport to take punishment.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Take
  • Punishment
  • Sport

• To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Job
  • American
  • Age

• People always ask, 'Was it fun? Was it fun working on a movie?' I don't know if that's the operative word. It is challenging and interesting and all those other things, but fun isn't always.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.

  

  Umar
  • Hands
  • Inspiring
  • Affair

• A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.

  

  Zengzi
  • Work
  • Men
  • Humility

• For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And without a full, spiritual center - and I am not talking about religion, I am talking about without understanding the fullness from which you've come you can't really fulfill your supreme moment of destiny.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.

  

  Lynne Cheney
  • Women
  • Taught
  • Educators

• There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Doubt

• One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Respect

• At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Thinking
  • Inspiration
  • Angst

• You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Want
  • Yes We Can

• It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

  

  Wes Montgomery
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Thinking

• If, for you, orthodox means finally “getting it right” or “getting it straight,” mine is a pretty disappointing, curvy orthodoxy. But if, for you, orthodoxy isn’t a list of correct doctrines, but rather the doxa in orthodoxy, which means “thinking” or “opinion,” then the lifelong pursuit of expanding thinking and deepening, broadening opinions about God sounds like a delight, a joy.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Joy
  • Delight
  • Orthodox

• It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.

  

  Riccardo Muti
  • Things
  • Extraordinary

• New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • City
  • New York
  • Cities

• Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.

  

  Van Jones
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