Enoch L. Johnson Quotes

Ordinary people avoid troubles. Extraordinary people turn them into advantage.

Enoch L. Johnson

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• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Me
  • Born
  • Playing

• I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Me
  • Care
  • Write

• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Advantage

• Taking advantage of someone in return for work is the most disgusting thing ever.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Thing
  • Advantage

• When Russians were having troubles, the Space Shuttle supported the Space Station Mir bringing up much needed supplies and replacements, critical spares, really. That they were able to keep their space station going for much longer than they would have without us. So, I think that shows the value of international cooperation.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Space
  • Value

• I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Love
  • Career

• There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Advantage
  • Field
  • Gained

• An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.

  

  Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
  • Children
  • Knows
  • Advantage

• You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Advantage

• I hope so. We've got a measure in front of us that we have to step up to and try to regain some kind of composure and some kind of home-court advantage.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Up
  • Home
  • Hope

• American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Taken

• Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Like
  • Troubles
  • Babies

• Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Good
  • inspirational
  • Advantage

• Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Troubles
  • Ahead
  • Loom

• When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

  

  Aristotle
  • End
  • Poor
  • State

• It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Advantage
  • Gods

• It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Advantage

• For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is to bee interpreted; and they that insist upon single Texts, without considering the main Designe, can derive no thing from them clearly; but rather by casting atomes of Scripture, as dust before mens eyes, make everything more obscure than it is; an ordinary artifice of those who seek not the truth, but their own advantage.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Words
  • Advantage
  • Scripture

• Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Theory
  • Secrets
  • Imposing

• The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Light
  • Changes
  • Atmosphere

• Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let them meet or play with them. You just showed them pictures of them, and told them to memorize their names. Each day you'd have them recite the names, over and over again. You'd say, "OK, this is a picture of your great-aunt Beatrice. Her husband was your great-uncle Earnie. They had three children, your uncles Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo. Harpo married your aunt Leonie ... yadda, yadda, yadda.

  

  Brian X. Foley
  • Children
  • Pictures
  • Uncles

• Ordinary people avoid troubles. Extraordinary people turn them into advantage.

  

  Enoch L. Johnson
  • Advantage
  • Troubles
  • Ordinary People