Top 15 Lawton Chiles Quotes
#1. We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.
Dan Webster
#2. Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#3. When I was on 'One Life to Live,' I always wanted to delve into my character, Layla, to find out why she was the black sheep of the family. I so wanted to have some edge. I have no idea why there was a reluctance to do that or why we so rarely see it.
Tika Sumpter
#5. We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.
Lawton Chiles
#6. I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference.
Lawton Chiles
#7. To reach levels of success you've never reached before, you must be committed at a level you've never been committed at before.
Hal Elrod
#8. It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
Thomas Clarkson
#9. Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.
John P. Kotter
#10. You should wake up every day looking for the trouble you can get into.
Lawton Chiles
#11. To be a successful state, we must nurture successful children.
Lawton Chiles
#12. A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'
Paul Watzlawick
#13. Take your feet of of the brakes, push the pedal, give yourself the green light and be unstoppable.
Catrice M. Jackson
#14. The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.
Lawton Chiles
#15. A person tends to believe whatever is repeated over and over, whether it is true or not.
Nikki Sex
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