James Burgh Quotes

Not every year is going to be the same and you just kind of have to just roll with the punches.

There's going to be ups, there's going to be downs and you're going to have to roll with the punches.

What keeps you in this business is the thought that maybe tomorrow will be different.

Things are constantly in flux and changing, and as crazy-making as that can be, it's also the thing that can get you through tough times - 'Well, things change.'

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

This, too, will pass.

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

Nothing endures but change.

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

I just roll with the punches.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.