Tom Johnson famous quotes

Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause.
-- Tom Johnson

#Mean #Healing #Discipline

Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.
-- Tom Johnson

#Learning #Organization #Patterns

So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.
-- Tom Johnson

#Loss #Self Worth #Darkness

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.
-- Tom Johnson

#Character #Thinking #Important

Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.
-- Tom Johnson

#Writing #Order #Purple

I was raised in farm and ranch communities, and my dad wanted me to be a cowboy like him, but I saw how he struggled in life and wanted more than that.
-- Tom Johnson

#Dad #Cowboy #Community

The military offered the opportunity to see the world, and meet other people and learn new customs. Plus, the Army taught soldiers discipline. The life I experienced in the service was an education I could never have obtained as a cowboy.
-- Tom Johnson

#Military #Army #Cowboy

Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I can describe people and places from actual experience. And for someone with an imagination like me, I could see dinosaurs and lost civilizations in the jungle of Vietnam.
-- Tom Johnson

#Writing #Cowboy #Land

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.