Jimmy Iovine Quotes

I have rules for everything.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to achieve it.

To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

I'm known as tidy, I like to keep my stuff in order.

I like to be very, very regimented and very OCD in my routine.

I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.

Everyone in his place and a place for everyone.

I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

The one thing that kids need is consistency.

I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

We are all anxious to be accepted. But if you have a strong mother and father who tell you that you don't have to dress a crazy way, or hang out with people who are looking for trouble in order to be loved and accepted, then half the battle is over.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.