John Barrow Quotations

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.

Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.

He gets an A-plus on the big-business-friendly test. In fact, he's the teacher's pet,

I think the district belongs to the voters who live there and vote there, ... I'm too busy doing the job I was elected to do to focus too much on an election that's over a year away.

Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.

The government has a responsibility to protect consumers from unnecessary gas price inflation. There should be zero tolerance for anyone who tries to profit off of fear, rumors, and tragedy. That's why I'm calling on the Federal Trade Commission to launch a full investigation of gas price manipulation. Because if we don't make an effort to figure out why this is happening now, we won't be able to stop it from happening again.

Sometimes you feel isolated and vulnerable in a studio with headphones on having to peer at studio staff through the control room window.

People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.

That was a challenge to them. First Flight and any team that Ray coaches, they battle and stay in there with it, and we talked to told them when they came in that it was time for us to make a statement about ourselves, that we need to push a run or two across, of course we got several.

You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.

This is a senior-group of ballplayers, and they have put in their dues as far as getting themselves prepared and it's good to sit and watch them play. They play good defense, they're so competitive at the plate, and they all want to hit it every time, and sometimes you have to push them up there when they're not having a good at-bat but most of the time they put the bat on the ball.

It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.

Infinity is a player of great significance who appears on the stage only when the crucial questions of existence are raised. Infinity offers its services when we seek to know if the Universe began or whether it will ever end, whether life will always be part of its landscape, and whether there are tasks which can never be accomplished. Infinity challenges us to contemplate the duplication of ourselves and all that we hold dear, and to ponder the cogency of all possibilities, potential and actual. It undermines our sense of the precious by suggesting a randomly infinite universe will eventually conjure up the works of Shakespeare, somewhere, as if created by a regiment of monkeys armed with typewriters. Infinity also seeks to guard us from taking the wrong path in our quest to unravel the deepest of Nature's secrets about the ultimate structure of mass and energy.

If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.