Bill Hybels Quotes

Don't let your prayers turn into a wish list for Santa Claus. Worship God and praise him when you come to him in prayer.

Bill Hybels

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• People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.

  

  V. E. Schwab
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• That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
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• When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
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• Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Age
  • Stop
  • Someone

• I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'

  

  Ted Danson
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• I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Magic

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Home
  • Workshop

• When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Love
  • Fun

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

  

  Jack Layton
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Innovation
  • Customer

• Everything is on the table, everything is open.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Everything
  • Open
  • Table

• The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form...

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

  

  Saadi
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Prayer
  • Yoga
  • Medicine

• We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Days
  • Soup
  • Salad

• Don't let your prayers turn into a wish list for Santa Claus. Worship God and praise him when you come to him in prayer.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • God
  • Wish
  • Prayer