James Cook Quotations

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

We were in disbelief that someone would be that ignorant to do something so flagrant in violation of the law,

There are more and more talented women conductors around the world and they're going to make their mark. I would think Baltimore would be happy to have Alsop, she's an fine conductor.

We have isolated the compounds that could help treat schizophrenia, and to find out that we have people across town who can look at the behavioral biology of our compounds, it means that we can test this so much faster.

She had a very difficult time finding recognition in her time.

My foundation has owned the refuge in Ward County for over 20 years. They're asking us to divest something owned for about a quarter-century.

On the ignition side, human behavior is really what dictates whether we have a fire season.

I think we have the ingredients here: exceptional students and dedicated faculty. But we can't do it without partnerships.

I think it would be nice to be able to talk directly to the surface.

We didn't have any idea of what was going on. We had no idea.

The dead grass and pine needles from last year serve as fuel for the fire. With the wind blowing the way it is, an ember from a small fire can blow dozens of feet and spark a larger fire.

It was very shocking and outrageous, ... It put us in shock that someone could just change the warranty deed without our acknowledgement.

That game was so important to us that guys were down for a couple of days, ... Really, it was a big momentum-changer for us around here. But we've had to suck it up this week. We needed that game, and not playing well hurt us.

It's not how long your legs are; it's how fast you pick them up and put them down that counts.

It's not a pleasant feeling by any means. Last year it was tough just to try to get up for games, to get any kind of motivation going. But if you keep thinking about it and thinking about it, it starts to get to you, and that's a bad thing. You just have to keep your mind focused on your job and what you have to do to help your team win. Eventually, we'll get one.

I don't know how they could really make mines much safer than they are. What else can they really do.

The Hollywood left insists on painting business persons as arch criminals, even though it's ridiculous. They like to depict free enterprise, capitalism and business leaders as a source of evil and criminality. Somehow they think that will influence enough people to further their left-wing agenda.

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

A salesman sees a commission.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

At times life becomes too busy for religious thoughts.

What is written is more influential than what is said.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but

Money could never have originated as paper.

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.

The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.

Taxes are a penalty on progress.

If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

Government regulators are another name for police.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

Inequality promotes progress.

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

Investors believe in the best possible outcome.

At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis.

The more welfare, the more crime.

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Without memory there are no worries.

Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

Faith must be worked at.

Beware the person who is on a hot streak.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

People rarely use advice.

Nobody heeds danger when they're making money.

Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to a long line of moochers, pork barrel hustlers and ne'er-do-wells. These funds would otherwise have been employed as additional capital indispensable to economic progress.

There are alternate explanations for everything.

Give persons who would cheat you every opportunity so you can soon be rid of them.

Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit.

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.

The government endangers us with our own money.

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare.

Good times weaken belief.

To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.

We should worry about our own souls first and trust in God's plan for others.

There is no help from without, only from within.

You can't think in sound bytes.

The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.

That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.

Advice from others is always filtered through self interest.

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

Everybody lives an epic.

The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.

The government is worst which governs most.

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.