Robert Johnson Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Don’t ever knock a bottle out of my hand.

The goal of inner work is to help clients unblock their bottlenecks and learn how to live in partnership with the unconscious rather than at its mercy.

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?

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

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

If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She’ll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.

History seems to be so clumsy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry.

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

The blues is a low down achin’ chill.