John C. Maxwell Quotes

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • More
  • Hollywood
  • Where

• My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Black
  • Me
  • Capitalist

• Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • More
  • Upset
  • Far

• Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Simple
  • Daily

• I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Happy
  • Father
  • Parents

• I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Thought
  • Stars

• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Way
  • Screen

• I'm tired of living in a police state.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Tired
  • Police
  • Living

• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Real
  • Job
  • Month

• If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Great
  • Music
  • Children

• 'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Person

• Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Freedom
  • Myself
  • Practice

• When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • God
  • Sexy

• I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • History

• You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Person

• It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Blue
  • Face
  • Strategy

• I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen.

  

  Audrey Tautou
  • People
  • Believe
  • Destiny

• Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • World
  • Man
  • Like

• I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Work
  • Alone
  • Painting

• I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• If you look at how the US economy has suffered over the last 15 or 20 years, it's in significant part because we haven't done the investments in research and development and infrastructure and other public goods that are necessary for our growth. And, unfortunately, we're going to be feeling that overhang for a long time to come, because it's the investments we made in the 1950s and '60s and '70s that result in some of the greatest technological breakthroughs that we enjoy today.

  

  Jacob Hacker
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Good
  • Today