Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
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Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
You can change your tomorrow if you do something today. Few people understand how the way you live today impacts your tomorrow. Today is the only time we have within our grasp, yet many people let it slip through their fingers, recognizing neither its value nor potential. If we want to do something with our lives, then we must make today matter, because that's where tomorrow's success lies.
Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.
The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.
I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.
As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.
The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.
The heart is your student, for love is the only way we learn.
Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are crazy [people]. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis, we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.
God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.
There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.
Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis.
Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it . Because there is, of course, always the desire, the hope, that they are not two separate worlds, sound and silence, but that they become each other, that only our hearing fails.
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