John Powell
John Powell
lying men yesterday
You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.
godly thinking yesterday
If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.
became felt friends-or-friendship knew people true
Once he became the champ, he told me he didn't really know who his friends were any more, ... He told me he felt like his only real, true friends were in Louisville. ... This is where the people really knew him and made him feel the most comfortable.
anytime certainly hands stop street takes work
Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. ...It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard.
alone equipment plus training value
The value of the training alone plus the equipment is a win-win for the community,
pay picture realistic trying
We're trying to get a realistic picture of just what E-911 will pay for,
blessed cease laugh laughter learned shall
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained
ankle clearly kid knocked tend
We tend to think if a kid isn't knocked unconscious, he's okay, ... aren't like an ankle sprain that is clearly identifiable.
command control
Communications is the linchpin. You can't have command and control without communications.
beyond continuing folks housing interested step willing
You folks are not willing to go beyond any step beyond what we agreed. I am not even interested in continuing the housing development,
among attributes came germans pedestal realized russians skin sort
After being with the Russians and the Germans and others, ... their skin was white, and he was put on sort of a pedestal among them. When he came back here, he realized that over there, they didn't look at him for his color, only for his attributes as a boxer. He got a little different after that, because he came back here and things were still the same.
business cost gone inception order rates revenue secure since stream
Since the inception of E-911, the rates have not gone up, but the cost of business has gone up, ... ... We have to do something in order to secure the revenue stream for E-911.
confidence horizon grows
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
real becoming fixed
There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.