Brian Johnson Quotations

When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

I have my 1973 Citroen DS 23 Pallas. I drive it all the time. It's still the most beautiful shape in the world.

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

We knew this would be a critical event for us.

The main thing (about the organization) is to enjoy motorcycles, ..and have a good relationship with the community.

Blackberry Smoke is a band that will never go hungry.

Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.

Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain - particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical.

My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.

Painting is so much more than the materials.

All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!

The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.

Let the results be a by-product of you taking impeccable steps day-in and day-out.

If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence' or 'virtue,' but has a deeper meaning — something closer to 'expressing the highest version of ourselves.' When we're showing up fully moment to moment, there's no room for regret/anxiety/disillusionment, just a whole lot of happiness. Here's to getting our areté on!

Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.

If you look at the life of Jesus, that's an example of true worship. You know look at the stories, if you want to learn about real worship read Matthew through John. Seriously. You just read it and you will see the true level. You see when Jesus is in the boat and the storm comes when it comes and the winds are blowing and Jesus is sleeping in the boat and the disciples are freaking out. And Jesus wakes up and says "What you guys got is a problem, no?" and he commands the seas to be calm that's true worship.

We see this as a test of their ability to face reality.

I strongly believe that nothing is more spiritual than living at our highest potential while serving others. I believe that the more closely aligned we are to "spirit" the more fully we will give ourselves in service to the world. As such, my "spiritual path" is the path that leads me to a more complete manifestation of my unique Bodhisattvic duties.

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence.

Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.

Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy.

They’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like 'grrrr!'’ and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil sounded like that. I thought he was coherent like the rest of us.’

Quit putting yourself in a little box by trying to live consistently with your past and explaining every little action you take. BE YOU. Fully. In this moment. Independent of what others may or may not 'expect' from you.

We had no other choice. There's good people in the world. This really is all we have. We have friends here. We have our lives here.

When I moved here, there was no Blue Knights. When I arrived, I went to the international organization and received permission to start a new chapter.

He had 18 defensive rebounds. We didn't do a good job of getting any offensive rebounds. Our lack of getting second-chance points was huge.

I watched the game and decided I'd get here as soon as possible.

I think they are very serious about filing if they don't get concessions. I think Miller's track record indicates he doesn't put out threats and then back away from them.

I think the result will be you'll have a shareholder activist with a significant but not controlling interest who will lobby for a restructuring. For the first time, we could have someone who could look out for shareholders.

Our timing is still late September, early October. We weren't expecting a labor deal by Labor Day.

It does have some ability to create incremental value by getting to non-GM customers and dealers.

We hope that other towns can see this being done. If they see it doesn't take that long, we might get everybody a home.

Typically private clubs around the country are struggling a bit, and we just wanted to be progressive about it. With all the growth Downtown and the new condos, we just want to make sure they've heard about us.

We didn't deserve to win this game tonight.

We actually have turned work away on ethanol. Right now, we have a workload that takes us out to next summer . . . and that's just with ethanol.

The reason you are seeing banks refocus back on distribution is because that is the only competitive advantage they have over new players,

We've had a good season. The seniors have led us and I have a number of freshman and sophomores on the team who are equally contributing.

We slowed down our own little press a little bit and made it a more controlled press to speed them up.

What that means is higher growth, captive clients and bigger synergies. And the more you diversify, the less risk there is.

To be honest, at first some of the guys had the mindset that they didn't want to play in the NIT. But this is another opportunity to play basketball again. We're trying to win a championship. It's not the Final Four, but it's the next best thing.

We had people at the luau tell us this initiative was long overdue.

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They all hit it a mile. It's not that unusual to see a kid hit it 350 yards. It's just crazy how far they hit it.

Any way you slice it, it doesn't look good.

Banks are sacrificing margins to win volume. At some point, interest rates will move up and loan losses will rise because banks are under-pricing risk.

That's huge. Now we're in the thick of the race, ... There's so much parity in this conference, it would be hard for a team to sweep right through it like we did last year.

You're a product. Teams say they care about their players, but it's only true until you stop producing. So it's hard to see a motivation for having your players stop using steroids if it's working for them.

You need to lean forward, from the ankles more. It's like you're running with your brakes on.

This is really a Palm issue. In the process of spinning off Palm we sorted out liability issues.

The way we're being treated, it feels like we're celebrities. I've never been religious. I used to go to church off and on, but I promised myself if my fiancee and I got through this that I would start going to church from now on. We were saved by the grace of God.

This company has a long way to go before it can return to its old levels of profitability.

A lot of people never see themselves running. Most of us know what good running form is when we see it.

They don't have a lot of height, but they have a lot of heart.

They are bringing more horsepower to fix North America. His background seems to be in line with what is needed in the U.S., which is getting people off the payroll.

There were those saying they had difficulty acclimating themselves to the community. With this first event they already feel more comfortable.

At first, the mindset of some of the guys was not to play in the NIT. The way they looked at it was, 'Oh, it's just the NIT.' But that was no big deal to me. I just looked at is as another opportunity to play basketball and it's been real valuable for me.

It's embarrassing and it does highlight the fact that there seem to be some real operational risk issues in NAB. Every time they write a loan, they code what sector it should be and they've been misallocating some of those codes.

It's a step forward in the culture of Ford. Whether it translates into increased profits remains to be seen.

It's awesome to have an 18-game winning streak, but you can't dwell on that because that's how you get beat. We just go out and prepare each week and play hard and if we do that, good things will happen.

It's a combination of customers demanding price concessions at the same time materials costs are abnormally high. The same customers that are demanding price concessions are sending them less volume.

It's a God thing. He's led us every step of the way through this and made it possible.

It's all stainless steel, which is high-end work.

It's almost embarrassing what we pay substitutes. The bad part about $37 a day is that it's not even minimum wage and these are high quality people and we need to pay them more.

It's probably within the range of things that UAW and GM lawyers anticipated and could explain why they were working towards an April settlement rather than an earlier one.

That's stuff you can't do if you want to win football games.

The banks are expensive compared to the rest of the local market and they're expensive compared with overseas banks.

The auto industry is a relatively unattractive place to allocate capital. So the bottom line is, if you're running a business that can span two or three industrial sectors, there are more attractive sectors to be in.

It won't be that much different than running into the top of the fence. That would pack quite a wallop. With track, kids will be warned, so they know it's coming.

The revenue side is going better than it was six months ago. But they need to address the costs in order to live with a new lower revenue amount. Even while revenue stabilized, it stabilized at a lower level.

As a coach, I can really appreciate having a group of kids like this. There are a lot of kids out there who are obsessed by distance, and all they want to do is pound their drivers. Our kids aren't like that. They understand the game. They get it. They realize that the goal is to get the ball in the hole, and the best way to do that is to practice your iron shots, your wedges, your chipping and your putting. If you develop those skills to a high degree, you're going to beat the bombers most of the time.

Anyone who assumes any kind of rebound for GM assumes some level of capacity reduction and health-care cuts. It's been a bit surprising they didn't have a report already.

In any open society, there is going to be a continuum between freedom and security, and I think any debate about how to strike that balance is a good debate, ... I do believe the Patriot Act strikes a good balance, but I'm also a Libertarian at heart. I want to hear good arguments on both sides.

I'm just a fan of great quarterback play,

I heard dogs barking and calves hollering. One of the dogs was at least part pit bull.

In those times, even the good people watched the lynching, there won't be change until the good people do something. Who will take charge now, who is committed today?

Can they defend market share? Can they get early retirements to match the pace of plant closings?

He's really a class act. Chris is the type of guy you want to market in this league. He's a great player on the field as much as he is a great guy off the field.

All I really wanted to do when I came here was to get back to the way I used to be. I'm getting there. I'm still not able to do what I used to do, my knee keeps getting better and my jumping ability has gotten a whole lot better over the season.

The combination of double-digit housing loan growth and above average business loan growth supports St.George's earnings outlook.

The main thing (about the organization) is to enjoy motorcycles, ... and have a good relationship with the community.