James Truslow Adams Quotes

#1. Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

James Truslow Adams

#2. New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

Pete Hamill

#3. I believe we must document our past; this tells us who we are and from where we came."
---Author Pamela Clark, from her interview with her publisher.

Pamela A. Clark

#4. The great value of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

James Truslow Adams

#5. I'm always working on many new projects that I can't talk about because of NDA's ...

Robin Atkin Downes

#6. Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

James Truslow Adams

#7. You must be sure of two things: you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin.

George Eliot

#8. The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

Murray Rothbard

#9. We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

James Truslow Adams

#10. Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it

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#11. I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

Henry Hopper

#12. You are in good shape for a dead man.

Mario Stinger

#13. It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.

James Truslow Adams

#14. The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

James Truslow Adams

#15. 'Tommy' was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. I was 14. It wasn't 'the show' that started that flame in me or anything, but it did excite me in a way no other show had. I'd never seen a show so brilliantly cast and directed.

Josh Young

#16. His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole history were weird. And they did weird things because none of us could understand what was on their mind and why they did what they did.

Berry Gordy

#17. The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.

Mira Grant

#18. Test your talents, pursue your passions, and let those experiences lead you to a sure sense of who you are. Build a strong core for yourself so that almost nothing and no one can shake you from that foundation. Don't be afraid to know what you want and go after it.

Mary Esselman

#19. The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.

Alain De Botton

#20. The West wants unconditional love; failing that, unconditional surrender.

Nadeem Aslam

#21. Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

James Truslow Adams

#22. I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns.

John Tesh