I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park.


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Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have ...
JIM ROHN
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those wh...
JIM ROHN
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not b...
JIM ROHN
In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of...
JIM GERLACH
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in ...
JIM BISHOP
There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney....
JIM BROWN
There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.
JIM MORRISON
A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and...
JIM BUNNING
An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not<...
JIM BUTCHER
We started Vector with the goal of creating a development platform that would foster and bolster the...
JIM CANTRELL
When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatev...
JIM GAFFIGAN
Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you ri...
JIM STEINMAN
Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in ou...
JIM RYUN
Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.
JIM ROHN
By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
JIM ROHN
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applyin...
JIM ROHN
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals
JIM ROHN
The book you don't read won't help.
JIM ROHN
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
JIM ROHN
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you ...
JIM ROHN
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
JIM ROHN
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
JIM ROHN
As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try ...
JIM CUMMINGS
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the...
JIM JARMUSCH
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
JIM ROHN
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's somethin...
JIM ROHN
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
JIM ROHN
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
JIM MANZI
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or m...
JIM HENSON
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always for...
JIM MORRISON
Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and...
JIM BUTCHER
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a rol...
JIM MORRISON
[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
JIM HENSON
Sleep is God. Go worship.
JIM BUTCHER
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. ...
JIM MORRISON
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about...
JIM MORRISON
I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who...
JIM BUTCHER
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
JIM HENSON
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
JIM DAVIS
Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. I...
JIM BUTCHER