Jim Wallis Quotes

Focusing on the right question is very different from having the right answers.

Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

Do you want me to answer that?

If you know what you want, you can find a way to get it.

I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?

Know what you want to do, because if you don't know what you want to do, you'll get stuck.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

If you become deadlocked,return to the prime point.

Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.

If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

Anything is possible as long as you're focused, determined and you really want to do it.

Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

Decision-making takes care of goal-setting, but discipline also takes care of goal-getting. Decisions and discipline can't be separated; one is worthless without the other.

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.

Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done.

You must always know what it is that you want.