Jerry Baker famous quotes

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.
-- Jerry Baker

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We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.