John Powell
John Powell
people
We want to let people know we're here.
giving-up real people
When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.
became felt friends-or-friendship knew people true
Once he became the champ, he told me he didn't really know who his friends were any more, ... He told me he felt like his only real, true friends were in Louisville. ... This is where the people really knew him and made him feel the most comfortable.
finding framework good people religious separating whether work
It's always important for people to prioritize. Separating tasks, finding good work environments, whether you put that into religious framework or not, these things are still fundamental.
print
We've joked we should just print it on the form.
easy none year
This year was exceptional for ice, but none of it's easy to get to.
keeps score stomach
When I repress my emotions, my stomach keeps score
asking regular special treated
We're not asking to be treated in any special way. We're asking for the regular process.
reinventing-yourself
You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.
seven-years play understanding
I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.
lying men yesterday
You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.
wisdom pain soul
There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.
men initiative accepting
God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.
brain rockets myth
There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.