Jim Root Quotes

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.

Sometimes one misses the sign posts as you're going down the road. They aren't as obvious as they become when you get to the end of the road, so to speak.

It's just a fact of life that you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

It's often necessary to hit a second shot to really appreciate the first one.

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.

I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.