Robert Johnson Quotes

• Believe in yourself and have confidence that you can compete against all odds. Have a vision of what you'd like to accomplish and be able to articulate that vision.

  Robert Johnson

  Confidence, Believe, Odds

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• You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride.

  Robert Johnson

  Evil, Body, May

  Song: Me And The Devil Blues

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• Hello Satan, it's time to go. Me and the devil, walkin' side by side.

  Robert Johnson

  Devil, Sides, Hello

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• The blues is a low down achin' chill.

  Robert Johnson

  Chill, Lows

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• If you can’t be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are unlikely to be happy about anything

  Robert Johnson

  Lunch, Unlikely, Ifs

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• Blues fallin' down like hail And the day keeps on worryin' me There's a hell hound on my trail.

  Robert Johnson

  Hell, Hounds, Hail

  "Hell Hound on My Trail" (song) (1937)

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• Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.

  Robert Johnson

  People, Goal, Vision

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• All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.

  Robert Johnson

  Black History, Black, Needs

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• Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.

  Robert Johnson

  Greek, Three, Six

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• A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.

  Robert Johnson

  Spring, Cutting, Psychological Health

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• History seems to be so clumsy.

  Robert Johnson

  Seems, Clumsy

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• I woke up this mornin' Feelin' round for my shoes Know 'bout I got these, Old walkin' blues.

  Robert Johnson

  Shoes, Walking, Knows

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• Anything that has to do with money, I want to be in that business.

  Robert Johnson

  Want

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• A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

  Robert Johnson

  Men, Way, Facts

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• I have pains in my hearts, they have taken my appetite.

  Robert Johnson

  Pain, Taken, Heart

  Song: Stones In My Passway

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• I been studyin' the rain and I'm 'on drive my blues away.

  Robert Johnson

  Rain

  Song: Preachin' Blues

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• Whenever I see an opportunity and a chance to change something, I go at it and I lay out all the facts to everybody. And when I come to this space, I'm going to come with talent, I'm going to come with focus. And I'm going to do the job as competitively as the next guy.

  Robert Johnson

  Jobs, Opportunity, Space

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• If there's something I can do and I feel it should be done, I just want to do it. I just don't want to leave it undone because I'll sit back and say, why didn't I do that? Why didn't I start that business?

  Robert Johnson

  Done, Want, Should

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• It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.

  Robert Johnson

  Art, Skeletons, People

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• History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

  Robert Johnson

  Swings, Individual, Pendulums

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• Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

  Robert Johnson

  Age, Needs, Entering

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• I'm a hard workin' man, have been for many long years.

  Robert Johnson

  Hard Work, Men, Years

  Song: I'm A Steady Rollin' Man

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• Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had.

  Robert Johnson

  People, Worried, Worst

  Song: Walking Blues

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• My spiritual connection with nature is basically what we all have - you transcend yourself. It's what happens when you see a sunset, for example. If I were using a traditional religious term, I'd say I was connecting with God. For me, I feel that much more in nature than in a city.

  Robert Johnson

  Spiritual, Religious, Nature

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• Don't ever knock a bottle out of my hand.

  Robert Johnson

  Hands, Bottles

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