Tom Johnson Quotes

• Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause.

  Tom Johnson

  Mean, Healing, Discipline

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• So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.

  Tom Johnson

  Loss, Self Worth, Darkness

  "Stress, depression and the CEO" by Rhonda Rowland, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2002.

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• Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.

  Tom Johnson

  Learning, Organization, Patterns

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• Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

  Tom Johnson

  Character, Thinking, Important

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.

  Tom Johnson

  Writing, Order, Purple

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• I was raised in farm and ranch communities, and my dad wanted me to be a cowboy like him, but I saw how he struggled in life and wanted more than that.

  Tom Johnson

  Dad, Cowboy, Community

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• The military offered the opportunity to see the world, and meet other people and learn new customs. Plus, the Army taught soldiers discipline. The life I experienced in the service was an education I could never have obtained as a cowboy.

  Tom Johnson

  Military, Army, Cowboy

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I can describe people and places from actual experience. And for someone with an imagination like me, I could see dinosaurs and lost civilizations in the jungle of Vietnam.

  Tom Johnson

  Writing, Cowboy, Land

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't regret leaving the farm and ranch for the Army. Although I may have been a disappointment to my father, I achieved more than he could ever dream of in his short life.

  Tom Johnson

  Dream, Disappointment, Regret

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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