John O'Brien > Quotes

“That which begins will also end.”
― John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas

“There will always be dark characters, but her life is good; it is as she wishes it to be.”
― John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas

“If he drinks one hundred dollars a day--and he can--he's got one hundred days to drink. It's just an arithmetic operation, simple logic.”
― John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas

“His point was made, and he moved along, in keeping with the tangential nature that must consume at least one of them. There is a bottle in his future--perhaps sooner a glass--elsewhere on the line.”
― John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas

“Leading isn't about being perfect, but learning from mistake one made by you or others. It's showing by example and, if you do make a mistake, you own it and rise above it. You don't hang your head down, but lift it up and say, "Fuck. I guess I won't do that again!". The one thing you can't do is let it destroy your self-confidence . If you do, the mistake wins. If you rise above it and tuck the lesson in your bag of tricks, you win. -- Jack Walker (A New World: Conspiracy)”
― John O'Brien

“of suspected”
― John O'Brien, Tipping Point: The Fifth Tunnel