John Popper Quotes

Coasting to the bottom is the only disgrace.

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• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Communication

• The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Night
  • Energy

• Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Art

• You hate to think one of those kids is not going to get a trophy for Player of the Year. There are numerous awards, and ideally they would split them. If Morrison doesn't get a Player of the Year award, I'll buy him a gold trophy, call it the Dickie V. P-T-Per Award and ship it out to him myself.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Kids
  • Hate
  • Player

• The most outstanding manifestation of negative growth in the spiritual, mental and physical health of the human race through eons of evolution is the pride of place that has been given to Guilt.

  

  Zeina
  • Health
  • Spiritual
  • Growth

• Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.

  

  Aristotle
  • Hero
  • Tragedy
  • Virtues

• Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

  

  Plato
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Confused

• In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'

  

  Virchand Gandhi
  • People
  • Religious
  • Western

• Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Truth
  • Commitment

• It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Woman
  • Fortune
  • Cautious

• Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Book
  • Nature
  • Solitude

• Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

  

  George Washington
  • Liberty
  • Show
  • Encourage

• I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Designers
  • Look Like
  • Went

• It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Trifle

• Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Dream

• I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.

  

  Aleks Paunovic
  • Trying
  • Win
  • Medal

• I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Famous
  • Blue

• As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Balance
  • Bottom

• Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

  

  William Greider
  • Economy
  • Economic
  • Policy

• Coasting to the bottom is the only disgrace.

  

  John Popper
  • Bottom
  • Disgrace