Bill Hybels Quotes
When we make a habit of prayer, we stay constantly tuned to God's presence and open to receive his blessings.
Quotes to Explore
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
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I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.
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I can honestly say I am the luckiest man around to be able to have worked at a job I love for so many years. It's truly been a joy for me.
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
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When we make a habit of prayer, we stay constantly tuned to God's presence and open to receive his blessings.
