Practical Advice From Guys Named Jim

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual,

you will have to settle for the ordinary."

~  Jim Rohn, businessman

"Avoid fruits and nuts.

You are what you eat."

~  Jim Davis, cartoonist

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear;

after that, fear has no power, 

and the fear of freedom shrinks 

and vanishes. You are free."

~  Jim Morrison, musician

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot

keep to gain what he cannot lose."

~  Jim Elliot, missionary

"If you aren't in the moment, you are 

either looking forward to uncertainty,

or back to pain and regret."

~  Jim Carrey, actor

"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full

day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days

a week, you're going to have something special."

~  Jim Valvano, basketball coach

"Life's like a movie; write your own ending.

Keep believing, keep pretending."

~  Jim Henson, puppeteer

"Motivation is what gets you started.

Habit is what keeps you going."

~  Jim Ryun, athlete

"Be thankful for problems. If they 

were less difficult, someone with 

less ability might have your job."

~  Jim Lovell, astronaut

"Losing is no disgrace if

you've given your best."

~  Jim Palmer, athlete

"You cannot learn anything from 

success, you only learn from failure."

~  Jim Dale, actor

"Good judgment comes from experience.

Experience comes from bad judgment."

~  Jim Horning, scientist

Interesting Quotes By Famous Torontonians

"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow

because it was important to them:

there ought to be as many for love."

~  Margaret Atwood, author

"No matter what your choices are, you truly 

have no control about what people think of you."

~  Neve Campbell, actress

"I think I may have become an actor to hide 

from myself. You can escape into a character."

~  John Candy, actor

"Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos."

~  Douglas Coupland, author

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."

~  Jim Carrey, actor

"When you're in the muck, you can only see muck.

If you somehow manage to float above it, you

still see the muck but you see it from a different

perspective. And you see other things too. 

That's the consolation of philosophy."

~  David Cronenberg, film director

"It's important for me to let my 

fans know I really don't care."

~  Drake, hip-hop artist

"If you keep bashing your head against 

the same wall, at some point you're going

to fall over and be still for awhile."

~  Feist, singer/songwriter

"Always have a sense of humor 

about life – you'll need it – 

but always be courteous to boot."

~  Peter Jennings, journalist

"A half truth, like half a brick, is

always more forcible as an argument 

than a whole one. It carries better."

~  Stephen Leacock, author

"People who annoy people are

the luckiest people in the world."

~  Howie Mandel, actor

"Sorrow is so easy to express

and yet so hard to tell."

~  Joni Mitchell, singer/songwriter

"With fame there is a crosswire

between intensity and intimacy.

You have decoy intimacy, but 

you are also very much alone."

~  Mike Myers, actor

"You may have a fresh start any

moment you choose, for this thing

that we call 'failure' is not the 

falling down, but the staying down."

~  Mary Pickford, actress

"You never appreciate anonymity

until you don't have it anymore."

~  Jason Priestley, actor

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends."

~  Keanu Reeves, actor

"No one is any one thing."

~  Martin Short, actor

"It's very important in life to know when to

shut up. You should not be afraid of silence."

~  Alex Trebek, TV personality

"You're never too fat for a new purse."

~  Nia Vardalos, actress

"The thing about my music is,

there really is no point."

~  Neil Young, singer/songwriter