Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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• The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Blood
  • Keep
  • Wash

• I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Me

• As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Man
  • Control

• The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Brain
  • Digital

• The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Truth
  • True

• Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix'.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Up

• Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.

  

  Alan Cheuse
  • Country
  • Family
  • She

• I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Music
  • Inspiration

• To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Passion

• It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.

  

  Jason Day
  • Good

• I want to wake up next to what I went to bed with. I need a girl who can get dressed up to come with me to things, but also one who isn't afraid to get her fingernails dirty or chip her nail polish.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Dirty

• If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

  

  Chris Evans

• There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• I have a lot of mermaid stuff. I did start collecting a lot before I had children because I didn't know if I would have a boy or a girl. So I saved everything.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Children
  • Girl
  • Boy

• Acting is just such an incredible art form.

  

  Jennifer Lien
  • Art

• Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

  

  Epictetus
  • Things
  • Trouble
  • Opinions

• I learned that the majority of the time, simplicity is the best way to go about things as you peel away the layers... that's when you start finding the gold... I can't say that was from my own acting. That was from observing actors like John Spencer and Martin Sheen... I had a chance just to observe.

  

  Dule Hill
  • Time
  • Gold
  • Simplicity

• The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Money
  • Free

• I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I'm talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It's just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that's brought me closer to Him.

  

  Josh Turner
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Jesus

• I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn't make much of an effort.

  

  Jane Green
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Effort

• There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Simplicity