John Patterson Quotes

#1. Believe that you can and you are halfway there

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. The silence of an African jungle on a dark night needs to be experienced to be realised; it is most impressive, especially when one is absolutely alone and isolated from one's fellow creatures, as I was then.

John Henry Patterson

#3. I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.

John Green

#4. It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.

John Henry Patterson

#5. To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself.

Ashly Lorenzana

#6. To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

John Henry Patterson

#7. Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.

John Henry Patterson

#8. It's an honor to be considered in the same breath, but I'm not Michael Jordan. I'm the first Chamique Holdsclaw. And I think that's where the women's game has to get to, when women are recognized on their own.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#9. This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.

James Patterson

#10. Mal!"
"What?"
"Close the door down there and lock it," David yelled. "Don't you come up here under any circumstances. Not till I tell you it's okay. Understood?"
There was a pause then Mal yelled back. "What if there's a fire?"
"Burn.

Kylie Scott

#11. You can't mess around with young readers - you have to cut straight to the heart of the story. The character can be complex, the plot can have some surprises, but the emotions have to be clear.

Rodman Philbrick

#12. The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.

James Patterson

#13. If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.

John Henry Patterson

#14. No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. But when he spoke, that great voice of his poured out of his chest in words like the snowflakes of winter, and then no other mortal could in debate contend with Odysseus. Nor did we care any longer how he looked.

Homer

#16. I'm tired of resisting love. Love will never be safe, but we've seen the alternative.

Thea Hillman

#17. Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

John Henry Patterson

#18. Iggy: Now what? Who you gonna call?
A quiet voice in the hallway outside: Ghostbusters!
(Captain Perry and John groan)
John: That phrase is ruined forever.

James Patterson

#19. Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

John Henry Patterson

#20. An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John Henry Patterson

#21. Customers don't care about your solution. They care about their problems. - Dave McClure, 500 Startups

Ash Maurya

#22. I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

John Niven