David A. Bednar Quotes

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

David A. Bednar

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• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • Science
  • Like
  • Fiction

• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Man
  • Impossible
  • Jump

• Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Voice

• I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Parents
  • Rock
  • Always

• There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Up
  • Education
  • Human

• You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Mind
  • You
  • Repetition

• I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Job
  • Pretty

• Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
  • Always
  • Opportunities

• The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Money
  • History
  • Quality

• Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

  

  Kanye West
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Living

• All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Different
  • Me

• If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Gun
  • Brotherhood

• What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Want
  • Wall
  • Creative

• Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Trying
  • You
  • Creating

• This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Music
  • Thinking

• There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Eye
  • Security
  • Questions

• When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Bad
  • Fashion
  • Politics

• It turns out a lot of people don’t get it. Wikipedia is like rock’n’roll; it’s a cultural shift.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • People
  • Rock

• Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Why
  • Want
  • Know

• The supposedly petty sexual harassment that so many women have to endure, from Hollywood studios to the factory floor at Ford, is a national outrage that needs to end. Period.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Women
  • Period
  • Petty

• You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders

• Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • People
  • Motivational
  • Surround

• To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

  

  David A. Bednar