Jim Ross Quotes

Talent is our No.1 operating priority and our most important asset.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

What I learned at Miramax is that if you see where extraordinary creative talent can be brought into the family, move quickly, because if you don't, someone else will.

It's easy to start over-thinking things and over-analysing things.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

I would never tie in creative with a talent's contract. To me, that is insanity. Creative needs change, talents evolve or not, and to be locked in to a talent having the ability to not run the plays that the team dictates is not smart business.

Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

He [Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.

Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

Worry is negative goal setting.

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.

The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution.