Bing Gordon Quotes

If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

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• I had no expectations of white people at all.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Expectations
  • White

• I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Know
  • Immigrant

• I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Kind
  • Stress
  • Gym

• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • War
  • First

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Never
  • Endless
  • Surprises

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Team
  • Language
  • Brother

• All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Children
  • School

• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hate

• Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • People
  • Country
  • Animals

• Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Character
  • Education
  • Spiritual

• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Persistence

• There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Power
  • Bigger
  • Aphrodisiac

• If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Believe
  • You
  • Someone

• New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • New
  • Construction
  • Glass

• People everywhere see the True, the Beautiful, and the Good and long to know their source. And, thank God, He has revealed Himself!

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• In many cases, women are being harassed by people who are on their board or who are associated with one of their venture capitalists.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • People
  • Women

• As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always.

  

  Jenna Elfman
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Actually, I'm 130, but 125 is what I put on my resume, because that's what I look like I weigh.

  

  Eleanor Mondale

• If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

  

  Bing Gordon
  • People
  • Achievement