John Mayer Quotes

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Time
  • Success
  • Respect

• Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • Life
  • Church
  • Failure

• 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

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
  • America
  • Government

• I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • Job
  • Fun

• Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Failure
  • Poverty
  • Hardship

• My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Friend
  • Failure
  • Years

• Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Success
  • Road
  • Failure

• Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Positive

• You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Done
  • Success
  • Failure

• The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Important
  • Game

• My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Business
  • High
  • Father

• I love language, and I love the failure of language.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Love
  • Failure
  • Language

• America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Love
  • Power
  • America

• Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Fear
  • You
  • Failure

• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Failure
  • Content

• If you don't solicit me for help, I'll leave you alone.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Help
  • Alone

• I would do these performances around town at different places, and that's when I really fell in love with performing, and I knew this was something that stood me up and filled me in a way that nothing had and nothing could. I really just fell in love with it.

  

  Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony
  • Up
  • Different

• A prophet such as we could use again today,strong,zealous,angry and gloomy in opposition to the leaders,the masses indeed the whole world.(Letter to his pastor Julius Schubring ,1846 regarding Medelssohn's choral work 'Elijah' published that year)

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • World
  • Work
  • Today

• You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

  

  Peter Lynch
  • Stock

• Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

  

  John Mayer
  • Failure