Top 86 Quotes About Robison
#1. I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, and by nature of having worked with my sister - growing up with a sister who also plays, and being in communication with other female musicians.
Emily Robison
#2. Always keep this point in mind: the word "delay" means what it says: late. Delayed isn't never, no matter how much it may feel like that at age fifteen or even twenty-five.
John Elder Robison
#4. I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.
Emily Robison
#5. I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a cold weather person.
Emily Robison
#6. And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.
John Elder Robison
#7. I'm a huge Kelly Clarkson fan. I think she's great.
Emily Robison
#8. I ride horses once in a while, but I'm no expert. I hold on for dear life.
Emily Robison
#9. When I act politely, I build a reserve of goodwill in others. That reserve allows those people to cut me some slack when I do something annoying.
John Elder Robison
#10. Girls are the trickiest and most unpredictable creatures a fellow like me will ever talk to.
John Elder Robison
#11. Something else that makes me angry is that I got too old to prostitute myself. I wasn't going to anyway but it was there, it was my Z plan.
Mary Robison
#12. When we discover and build upon our gifts it spurs positive feelings in us and those around us, and those feelings go a long way toward dissipating the burden of failure that many young Aspergians carry as kids.
John Elder Robison
#13. Especially in the Dixie Chicks, everyone wants you to play a role. Natalie was the feisty one. Martie was the nice one 'cause she smiles all the time onstage, and I was the quiet one.
Emily Robison
#14. Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.
Anthony Michael Hall
#15. Jesus has given you the power to live as He lived, which is something no earthly teacher can do.
James Robison
#16. It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.
Johann David Wyss
#17. It has always bothered me that many people, doctors included, tend to view anything that deviates from the typical as being abnormal or broken.
John Elder Robison
#18. Sociopath" and "psycho" were two of the most common field diagnoses for my look and expression. I heard it all the time: "I've read about people like you. They have no expression because they have no feeling. Some of the worst murderers in history were sociopaths.
John Elder Robison
#19. They say I have the ugliest feet in the world. I don't care if they say it - I'm not gonna hide 'em!
Emily Robison
#21. All of us have weaknesses, but we also have strengths. God's Spirit has gifted each of us for the good of the church.
James Robison
#22. A new year reminds us that regardless of how often we fail or miss the mark, God freely offers opportunity to begin anew.
James Robison
#23. You cannot fully wrap your mind around God, so better to fully wrap God around your mind.
James Randall Robison
#24. God wants to give you victory, but He can only do it if you show up for the battle.
James Robison
#25. It must be my logical consideration of a decision many see as purely intuitive or emotional that throws other people for a loop.
John Elder Robison
#26. What do women want? To be treated like a queen;
but by a king, not a pawn.
James Robison
#27. Love is the greatest force on earth to resist, limit and ultimately halt evil's deadly progression.
James Robison
#28. Optimism is not fantasy. It hopes for the best reality without departing from it.
James Randall Robison
#29. Saying you "have" something implies that it's temporary and undesirable. Asperger's isn't like that. You've been Aspergian as long as you can remember, and you'll be that way all your life. It's a way of being, not a disease.
John Elder Robison
#30. I was nice on the inside, but new acquaintances sometimes never stayed around long enough to notice,
John Elder Robison
#31. Asperger's is not a disease. It's a way of being. There is no cure, nor is there a need for one. There is, however, a need for knowledge and adaptation on the part of Aspergian kids and their families and friends.
John Elder Robison
#32. He wanted to tell her, from the greater perspective he had, that to own only a little talent, like his, was an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time, and liked yourself too little. He wanted to assure her that she had missed nothing
Mary Robison
#33. I was on my way to the gym. It was incredible. I was screamin at cars, 'That's me on the radio!
Emily Robison
#34. Pleasure can impact your happiness for better or worse, but it is not happiness.
James Randall Robison
#35. When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit.
Emily Robison
#36. We go through the good, the bad and the ugly all together.
Emily Robison
#37. Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind.
Emily Robison
#38. You know, up until later on today, I never really knew how to drink.
Mary Robison
#40. I knew I was some kind of misfit, but it was becoming apparent that some of the grown-ups who smiled sweetly and told me how terrible and fucked-up I was were complete fuckups themselves.
John Elder Robison
#41. The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, and waking up one day to find yourself dumb as a rock, but able to remember your former brains.
John Elder Robison
#42. So is there a cure?' I asked.
'It's not a disease,' he explained. 'It doesn't need curing. It's just how you are
John Elder Robison
#44. I don't know where I'll be crashing. I think that was my line.
Emily Robison
#46. We do not naturally care about people we don't know ... If we tried to feel sorry for every death, our little hearts would explode ... I don't have any physical reaction to the news. And there's no reason I should. I don't know them and the news has no effect on my life.
John Elder Robison
#47. People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'
Emily Robison
#48. As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dramatic reactions to bad news involving strangers are hypocrites.
John Elder Robison
#49. I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor ... My brothers and sisters are very quick, intense, brilliant, very sarcastic people. And they were always right there with you, right there, missing not one little throat clearing.
Mary Robison
#50. Learning how to get along with other people is vital for our own success and happiness.
John Elder Robison
#51. Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub.
John Elder Robison
#52. It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.
Emily Robison
#53. (The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.)
John Elder Robison
#54. I want to be playing music, and I want to be a great mom, and I want to do everything.
Emily Robison
#56. I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me.
John Elder Robison
#57. That was the definition of management - getting others to do your work for you. And we were the others.
John Elder Robison
#58. I named him Poodle, beginning a long tradition of functional pet naming.
John Elder Robison
#59. Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.
Emily Robison
#60. A crying grown-up with no visible damage, who knew what that meant?
John Elder Robison
#62. Don't hold on to religion and miss the joy of knowing Jesus.
James Robison
#63. I have found many times, the obstacles you believe to be ahead of you are nothing more than the baggage you are dragging behind.
Eric Robison
#65. Because speaking while watching things has always been difficult for me, learning to drive a car and talk at the same time was a tough one, but I mastered it.
John Elder Robison
#66. I did have role models, but most of them were male.
Emily Robison
#67. It does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation. All that matters is what you do.
John Elder Robison
#68. I love seeing strong-willed women inspire little girls. I hope someday some new artist will say 'I was inspired by the Dixie Chicks.
Emily Robison
#69. Let me tell you, I fall asleep on planes with my mouth open, and it certainly doesn't look very attractive.
Emily Robison
#70. Secure in his flight
Rider on the constant winds
Hawk flies through his days
Looks then to the east
Prompted by fate's gentle breeze
Changes his intent
Fate's gentle breezes
Move the mighty heart to change
Destiny remade
Steve Robison
#71. It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you pitch to the national artist, I just don't write that way.
Emily Robison
#72. If we can know the beauty God is forming in us, we can bear the pain He allows in our lives.
James Robison
#73. Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.
John Elder Robison
#74. We must reject the thought that evangelism is to be separated from the importance of standing against evil. We weren't saved just to escape this world and go to Heaven. Transformed people transform the culture while standing boldly against evil.
James Robison
#75. Constant contact is what people require these days. It's tough on artists.
Emily Robison
#76. Our hope will never be found in the efforts of man, but in Jesus Christ alone.
James Robison
#77. to Maxfield to get away from the crap I'd put up with all my life in lousy schools. I wasn't going to let a couple
Robison Wells
#78. And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don'treally understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.
John Elder Robison
#79. God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God.
James Robison
#80. toward Willa's room. She chuckled at the vision in
Teresa Robison
#81. It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil.
James Robison
#82. If we have understanding, we can oversee the resources God entrusted to our care. And the wiser we are, the more effective we will be as stewards.
James Robison
#83. ...I didn't trust you because I liked you. I trusted you because you earned it." -Becky
Robison Wells
#84. By the time I was twelve, I had progressed from "If he doesn't get better, he may have to be institutionalized" to "He's a weird, screwed-up kid.
John Elder Robison
#85. The way to bless God is to bless someone He loves. Bless someone in need.
James Robison
#86. Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.
John Elder Robison
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