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John C. Maxwell Quotes

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

John C. Maxwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: February 20, 1947

Topics

Wisdom Mistakes Man Smart Strong

Dog-fooding is using your own products so that you understand from inside out what it is you're providing the customers. It's another way to gain insights and to gain intelligence. You use it yourself; you eat your own dog food. Every time we do that, we discover something that we can improve.

Dog Time Food Intelligence Yourself

I don't use recurring characters. I do get very interested in my characters while I'm working with them, and I find the process of fitting them into a story, and allowing them to create the story around themselves, fascinating. But no, I don't imagine they have a life outside of what I make for them.

Life Story Process Find Create Get

You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.

You Shoot Got Score Otherwise

It was always the cliche of men leaving their wives for younger women. The playing field is sort of even now. Women make their own salaries. They can do the exact same thing and can have a younger man.

Jennifer Coolidge

Women Men Man Now Leaving Always

The most important factors for a long life, I think, are partly in the genes; number two is lifestyle, which includes healthy diet and regular exercise. I walk, run and swim every day. However, I think too much exercise is also unhealthy because of over-stress; sometimes people who exercise too many hours per day die early.

Life Walk Day People Think Die

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

John F. Kennedy

Parenting Process Grow Want Become

Initially, it was my dream to get into RADA. Then I got in. So it became my dream to show them I wasn't half bad at acting.

Bad Dream Acting Half Show Get

I'm never going to let someone else tell me what I can and can't do.

Me Someone I Can Never Tell Going

Senior year in college, a kind of confluence of events came together to have me pursue a career in acting. I was planning on being a lawyer; I double majored in history and political science. I took the LSAT and did horribly on it, and that was one thing that made me rethink a new direction.

Science History Together College Me

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

Character Doing Week Year Play Did

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

Women Great Depression Men Youth

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

Stephen Hawking

Hospitality Always Wonderful Been

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