Jimmy Buffett Quotes

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

Jimmy Buffett

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• Inspiration
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• The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Inspiration
  • Thing

• I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

  

  M. Ward
  • Inspiration
  • Dreams
  • Who

• I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Love
  • Style
  • Inspiration

• I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Family
  • Love

• All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Trust
  • Cool

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Trust
  • Training
  • Preparation

• Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Money
  • Trust
  • Your

• If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Business
  • Trust

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Great
  • May
  • Job

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ambition
  • Avarice

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • May
  • Beauty
  • See

• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

  

  Sallust
  • Ambition
  • Blood
  • Gratitude

• However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Writing
  • May
  • Think

• Latter-day Saints, having received the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, are entitled to personal inspiration in the small events of life as well as when they are confronted with the giant Goliaths of life.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Saints

• I love Top 40 pop, don't get me wrong; I just don't think that there's anyone in Top 40 pop that's 'real.'

  

  Lorde
  • Real
  • I Love
  • Pop

• I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.

  

  Caedmon
  • God
  • Children
  • Charity

• It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Different
  • Freedom
  • Take

• The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

  

  Democritus
  • Beginning
  • Envy

• We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • May
  • Trust
  • Inspiration