When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor’s office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don’t think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ‚cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

Come on, you can’t name a truck after a chick.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord’s Church and man-made institutions.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

I’m so not macho. It’s crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I’d ever have any interest in filmmaking.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical – one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.

I have an eye for detail.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.