William George Jordan Quotes

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.

William George Jordan

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• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Belief
  • Strength

• Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Dream
  • Boring
  • Ever

• When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

  

  Gary Burton
  • People
  • Time
  • Listening

• Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Money
  • Society
  • Almost

• As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Tomorrow
  • Fact
  • Yesterday

• When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations' DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Look
  • Changes
  • Survive

• I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Name

• One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Hope
  • Curiosity

• I do believe that in the future there will be a movie called 'Deadpool vs. Wolverine'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • Future

• On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • School
  • Girl
  • Friend

• Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Fall
  • Lonely

• Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Responsibility

• I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.

  

  Bob Odenkirk
  • Great
  • Interesting

• For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Music
  • Fashion

• The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Black

• Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Power

• If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

  

  Betty Carter
  • Music
  • Bird
  • Jazz

• When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that what I had said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's was talked over in which I strictly declared that I had never deviated from the truth in the matter, and as I supposed was admitted by himself.

  

  Oliver Cowdery
  • Truth
  • True
  • Dirty

• Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up. Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I believe you can speak things into existence.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Believe
  • Speak
  • Motivational

• I always appreciate when people save, and more importantly, share. As we speak, there are people in this world - mostly men - who have giant collections of recordings that no one will ever hear. And the value of that collection is almost defined by the fact that nobody else can hear it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.

  

  William George Jordan
  • Inspiration
  • Motivational
  • Improvement