John Landis Mason famous quotes

Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.
-- John Landis Mason

#Life #Gains

The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire.
-- John Landis Mason

#Art #Fire #Light

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
-- John Landis Mason

#Character #Originality #Easy

Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail. Anyone who is currently achieving anything in life is simultaneously risking failure. It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing. A flawed diamond is more valuable than a perfect brick. People who have no failures also have few victories.
-- John Landis Mason

#People #Perfect #Victory

When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.
-- John Landis Mason

#Excuse #Making Excuses #Hard

Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure.
-- John Landis Mason

#Neutrality #Indifference

Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.
-- John Landis Mason

#Crowds #Personal Life

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by ***** yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.