You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.
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Related We cannot enjoy life if we spend our time and energy worrying about what happened yesterday and what... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I am happiest now. There's nothing like running out of time to make you realise you're in th... HOWARD JACOBSON I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in ... CALLIE KHOURI We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. B... NORMAN LEAR How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here... J.P. VASWANI The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on... JIMMIE WALKER Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we ca... THICH NHAT HANH Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've di... NATHAN WOLFE I don't know if this (streak) is any different this time around or not. How long this will last? I d... FREDRIK MODIN Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is th... YEHUDA BERG We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins t... NEIL PATRICK HARRIS A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don't know who told me, but someone told me that ... BRUNO MARS Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals unt... BRUCE GREENWOOD Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future.... BRADLEY WHITFORD It puts things in focus. The team quarrels that people have don't really matter, ... You have to put... ANTHONY CANNON I think this is the most exciting time to be alive right now. We have a black president. There are t... VINCENT RODRIGUEZ III They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number... NAOMI JUDD People don't realize how long hours are when you're shooting a movie. ERIC STONESTREET You don't know what's going to happen in our business a year from now... so you have to be f... BRUCE NORDSTROM I think we showed three years ago that seeding doesn't mean much. Drury is a great team. But it's to... LARRY JUST It brings that event that's going to happen 40 years from now to right now, right here, right in fro... ANDREW HYLAND Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown... WALTER REISCH You know, I think there was a point in time when people didn't really understand how birth certi... JAN BREWER Those are all things if we had to take [them] into consideration, we will. Right now we have some yo... RON RIVERA I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We re... KARL MALONE Markets are nervous right now. A few months ago, anthrax was our big 'A' word, and now it's accounti... HEDI REYNOLDS If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. The... MAISIE WILLIAMS We are the future of our past and the past of our future,,,
We dont know what will happen in the fut... LIONY LUMOMBO VON TIRAMISU It's about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we're in ... DWYANE WADE Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right no... MAE WEST I feel like we cheated... because you read about these other directors, just like, 'Damn! They p... FREDDIE WONG It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for. D. B. SWEENEY I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine ... AMY POEHLER If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't ... TIM HARDAWAY We were a drained team after the Big East Tournament, but we're energized now. There's only one cham... TAQUAN DEAN You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what th... LEONARD NIMOY You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us ... RAYMOND CARVER What's really cool about our family is that we don't hold grudges, and I think that is what&... SELENA It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, rea... ALAN BALL When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to ... SALLY HAWKINS The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN I don't think that we really know our animals. We think we do because we're humans, and we t... CAROLINE PAUL I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn'... BEA ARTHUR Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into sma... INDIRA GANDHI Will it happen in a few months or will it ever happen? We just don't know. But we recognize that som... BARBARA RUSSELL You either end up on a good, fun show that's successful, or you have that question mark in your ... LUCY GRIFFITHS The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now. CAM GIGANDET I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in ... GENE WILDER That was three and a half years ago. We started with 20 employees. Now we have 750 and are hoping fo... JUDY LOWY It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now..... PEMA CHODRON Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right whe... MARY J. BLIGE What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are... KAMALA HARRIS In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, an... ZIYI ZHANG According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a sli... SETH LLOYD I think there's a big price to pay for consciousness, knowing that it's all going to end and... DANA CARVEY My voice right now, hey, listen. I don't know how long it's going to last. EYDIE GORME The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for wh... FLAVOR FLAV We can use electronic instruments like synthesizers and sequencers and things like that. I'm not sur... CHRIS FRANTZ Our record isn't too big of a deal right now. We know what we have to do, and as a team we know we c... DAVID SCHULTZ It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that ... STEVE WOZNIAK Things like that happen to you on the train, and you feel like you are glad to be in the right place... RAMONA PHELPS I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand ou... LUCY HAWKING I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's g... RAFAEL PALMEIRO That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of i... DANIEL ESPINOSA I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's ... DAN STEVENS All we have is now, this moment. If you live in the future, you’ll miss things, right here, right ... JESSICA THERRIEN As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd ... KATEE SACKHOFF We've worked on this a long time, so we're excited about that. It culminated right here, right now a... DAKOTA TEFERTILLER Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization... SID MEIER They?re the best team in the state right now. We?re not real deep at guard, so we had a hard time ge... BILL COWELL One of the things I learned in the military is sometimes you don't know what mistakes you make f... WESLEY CLARK Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. W... JAMES DYSON It's not a good path we are on right now. You have a situation now in which one or two things will h... FLYNT LEVERETT In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stag... SAM SHEPARD Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The Army Corps of Engineers is playing with limited dollars right now and despite the fact that we h... WAYNE GRAY Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. W... WALTER CRONKITE I think we're in a very low point of music right now. GEORGE CRUMB So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to l... BONO The Army Corps of Engineers is playing with limited dollars right now and despite the fact that we h... WAYNE GRAY Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I ... JOHN LENNON People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journ... SHANE SMITH So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this las... KEVIN GARNETT That's the difference between the NCAA and the NFL right now. They've got to step up and say... TONY DUNGY We all know that things here in the House go extremely slow, but I happen to think that eight months... CAROLYN MCCARTHY Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals wi... JOHNNY GALECKI I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Wa... JORGE RAMOS As it looks right now, we're going to be here a long time. JOHN MCNAMARA If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen. IAN MILLAR Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big tro... SIMON COWELL I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick ... MARY BERRY We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed ... SHARON SALZBERG We've known for a while that we are going to have long lines at the confessional booth and long face... PAUL MCMANUS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job grow... MARTIN O'MALLEY Carl said, 'Please, can you come and set up your tents here?' So here we are. We're going to stay as... BURTON What happened in the past seven days may not be a reflection of what will happen over the next seven... GENE ROMANO There is no right time and right place for love... it can happen any time. SHAH RUKH KHAN Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath. RICHARD BRANSON
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I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn... JAMES BALOG There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back... JAMES BALOG Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic. JAMES BALOG Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been tu... JAMES BALOG Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we ... JAMES BALOG We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature d... JAMES BALOG I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland. JAMES BALOG Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot f... JAMES BALOG This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that... JAMES BALOG Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their pre... JAMES BALOG When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this ver... JAMES BALOG We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's ev... JAMES BALOG The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going t... JAMES BALOG The division in RTP is really the heart and soul of this announcement in terms of the creative energ... DOUG BALOG Today marks a milestone for Blade.org with 60 companies joined together to speed the creation of inn... DOUG BALOG IBM is pleased to announce our intent to become a founding sponsor of The Green Grid. IBM has been a... DOUG BALOG Oh, hell, he'd look hot in a chicken suit. CYN BALOG It's great proof of IBM's innovation. DOUG BALOG A computer room that used to have racks and racks of computers can collapse all that into a much sma... DOUG BALOG I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek... JAMES ST. JAMES I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers... JAMES ST. JAMES Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big. JAMES ST. JAMES There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free... JAMES ST. JAMES Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles? JAMES ST. JAMES We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ... JAMES ST. JAMES I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl... JAMES ST. JAMES Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large. JAMES ST. JAMES I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up. JAMES ST. JAMES I was definitely the oddball freak show in school. JAMES ST. JAMES As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ... JAMES ST. JAMES The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual. JAMES ST. JAMES When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ... JAMES ST. JAMES Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans;
High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free. JAMES MONTGOMERY Q: You'er presented with a smooth-faced, eight-foot-high wooden wall. Your objective? Get over it. T... JAMES PATTERSON Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended... JAMES SALTER Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have ... JAMES PATTERSON If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are descr... JAMES BALDWIN Oft has it been my lot to mark
A proud, conceited, talking spark. JAMES MERRICK In lang, lang days o' simmer,
When the clear and cloudless sky
Refuses ae weep drap o' rain
... JAMES BALLANTINE The violets were past their prime,
Yet their departing breath
Was sweeter, in the blast of dea... JAMES MONTGOMERY Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. JAMES JOYCE We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we... JAMES TURRELL Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over... JAMES MADISON I love Carpenter, I love Craven - these are all the classics - the Romeros of the world, but I think... JAMES WAN I grew up loving X-Men, Spider-Man and Batman. Those are obviously the key big ones, but there's... JAMES WAN There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by... JAMES COMEY There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have s... PETER JAMES The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have ... JAMES WAN It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made... JAMES GRAY I don't think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I'm a singer-songwriter... JAMES BLUNT A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his tradema... JAMES WOLCOTT I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your bloo... JAMES STOCKDALE My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York... JAMES CAGNEY Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the... HENRY JAMES Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop pe... RENEE JAMES It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care litt... JAMES OTIS As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't... KEVIN JAMES I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then t... JAMES WAN We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government t... JAMES LANKFORD I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald. JAMES TAYLOR We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the ... WILLIAM JAMES Even a liberal city will have a prehistoric homophobe. After a show in Washington State, this guy ca... JAMES ADOMIAN Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or ... JAMES ALTUCHER The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contor... JAMES SUROWIECKI Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use ... JAMES MATTIS In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safet... JAMES SUROWIECKI Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do. BILL JAMES For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just vi... JAMES WAN As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and t... LEBRON JAMES My desire is to bring astronomical events and objects down into your personal, lived-in space. JAMES TURRELL Women pay attention to how men drive because it's a good indicator of what kind of character you... JAMES MARSDEN I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. BILL JAMES Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing princ... JAMES DYSON I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-bus... JAMES FRANCO Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it p... JAMES COOK I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling. JAMES SALTER The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy. JAMES DYSON The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, can... JAMES THURBER Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption... JAMES COMEY If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology,... JAMES SUROWIECKI The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is a... JAMES THURBER The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and th... JAMES BUCHAN We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consid... JAMES MATTIS You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtu... JAMES JONES None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the... BILL JAMES I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere ar... JAMES GRAY One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absen... HENRY JAMES To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of f... JAMES DICKEY For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you... LEBRON JAMES Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. WILLIAM JAMES If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he ... JAMES SUROWIECKI I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison. JAMES CRONIN Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficient... JAMES SUROWIECKI And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the boo... JAMES STOCKDALE The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; ... JAMES MATTIS Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing. JAMES DYSON The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of ... JAMES FENTON I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. JAMES BROUGHTON The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. JAMES MADISON I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striki... MARLON JAMES The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's as... JAMES HILLMAN For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic ac... JAMES FORRESTAL I've spent my life doing action films and most of my own stunts, so my teeth have been knocked o... JAMES COSMO My life isn't just one genre. It's a romance one minute, an action movie the next - it's... JAMES GUNN Acclaim is a distraction. JAMES BROUGHTON The most dangerous food is wedding cake. JAMES THURBER Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter. JAMES DYSON It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. CLIVE JAMES The one thing you've gotta do is that you need to always do the best you can do, no matter what ... JAMES CORDEN I will write another book if I feel like it. 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HENRY JAMES We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. WILLIAM JAMES If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more... JAMES BALDWIN Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie T... JAMES HOWE Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie, ... JAMES HOWE Are you still mad at me?" "Yes." "I'll go back to sleep, then." "Good. E.L. JAMES Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered ... JAMES BALDWIN Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, ... WILLIAM JAMES If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. WILLIAM JAMES Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides. JAMES RESTON I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home. HENRY JAMES If you see the bandwagon you've missed it. JAMES PHILLIPS The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be... JAMES RESTON Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. JAMES CARSWELL I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 ... JAMES BROWN Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. JAMES DUFFECY That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. JAMES BARRIE I learned from Bruce Lee, Be like water and Gil Grissom from CSI, Be like sponge. JAMES DYE The terrible fluidity of self-revelation. HENRY JAMES Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions. WILLIAM JAMES You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. JAMES JOYCE It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant. JAMES WATSON There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. WILLIAM JAMES Deep experience is never peaceful. HENRY JAMES The fatal futility of Fact. HENRY JAMES I can't say I haven't lied but I can say that I lied to tell the truth. JAMES DYE The great difference between present-day Christianity and that of which we read in these letters is ... JAMES PHILLIPS It is not something I must do but something I want to do JAMES FIXX Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be con... WILLIAM JAMES It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaste... WILLIAM JAMES As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. WILLIAM JAMES The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. JAMES BRYCE The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then co... 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JAMES BARRIE The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The ... JAMES ELLROY From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an... WILLIAM JAMES Better luck next time they say, or you win some you lose some, I guess it's something like that. JAMES DYE Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. JAMES BARRIE You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will f... JAMES ALLEN Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things ... JAMES ALLEN You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. JAMES AGEE There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It i... JAMES BRYCE The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex bu... JAMES AGATE Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. JAMES BARRIE One does not become a guru by accident. JAMES FENTON They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now. CAPTAIN JAMES It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moment... ALICE JAMES A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. JAMES FEIBLEMAN You just stood there screaming Fearing no one was listening to you They say the empty can ratt... JAMES HETFIELD There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. JAMES THURBER Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours... JAMES AGATE Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. JAMES BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde... 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JAMES DYE The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our c... WILLIAM JAMES The most useless are those who never change through the years. JAMES BARRIE Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. JAMES ALLEN The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly si... JAMES BALDWIN It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. JAMES AUGUSTINE We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied ... JAMES BALDWIN Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead... JAMES BARRIE In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the mea... JAMES ALLEN The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, ... JAMES BALDWIN All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forc... JAMES BALDWIN For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? JAMES ALLEN I JAMES ATLAS The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will ... JAMES ALLEN Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you sh... JAMES ALLEN