Good quotes 2015

(Describing a poor archery bow.)
"A knot-riddled branch broken from a cross-grained tree by a blind idiot in the middle of the night."
Robert Jordan in The Fires of Heaven


"You can't have the fruits without the roots."
--Stephen Covey in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People


"Trust generates commitment; commitment fosters teamwork; and teamwork delivers results."
--Jon Gordon in Soup


"Art Share should always have at least one broken door knob because the last dollar should go to an artist."
--Rick Robinson at "Above the Streets"


"Jashinski’s work insists we do not overlook the everyday beauty that surrounds us, and for him, this beauty lies in life’s imperfections."
--Noah Jashinski, photographer, for Art Share LA exhibit


“If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.”
--Jean-Luc Godard

Good Quotes 2013

"As Sun Tzu said, 'Every battle is won before it's ever fought.'  It starts in the mind."
Jon Gordon in Training Camp

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
Colin Powell

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
Muhammad Ali

"The world is not in your books and maps. It's out there."
Gandalf in The Hobbit.

"There did not seem to be brains enough in the entire group to bait a fishhook with."
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

"A King may move a man, a father may claim a son, but remember that even when those who move you be Kings, or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus." Or that, "Virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that."
From the movie "Kingdom of Heaven (2005) by Ridley Scott (IMDB link:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320661/)