Jim > Jim's Quotes

“It's hard to convince people when you're just staring out the window that you're doing your hardest work of the day.”
― Charles Schulz

“Only so much can be learned from books. The rest must be learned from practice. It's as if one were instructed in the fundamentals of carpentry and let it go at that. He may know "how" to build, but he won't be any good at it unless he does build, again and again, to achieve the type of perfection that comes only from continual performance.”
― James F. Cagney

“No bird soars in a calm. WILBUR WRIGHT”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

“You don't want to be content with yourself. People who are, are insufferable, the walking dead. But you don't want to be entirely driven, either, because then you just skate over the world and never touch it.”
― Mark Helprin, In Sunlight and in Shadow

“Gentlemen, enlisted men may be entitled to morale problems, but officers are not. I expect all officers to take care of their own morale. No one is taking care of my morale. - General George C. Marshall”
― David McCullough, Truman