Donald Miller Quotes

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

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• I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Future
  • See
  • Turkey

• We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Control
  • Environment

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Myself
  • Open
  • Mail

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Life
  • Time
  • Respect

• I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Story
  • Movies
  • Favorite

• I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Myself
  • Dying
  • Unknown

• Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Time
  • Think
  • Picture

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Die

• He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Future
  • Past
  • Right

• Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Different
  • May

• I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Think
  • Moving
  • Enjoy

• The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Strong
  • Community

• I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Singing

• I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.

  

  John Wesley
  • Believe
  • She
  • Nature

• I think it was not a bad idea to wrap Barack Obama in the mantle of Teddy Roosevelt. He`s been assuming a sort of progressive mantle, and he ticked off some large and systemic problems that this country faces.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Bad

• Wealth hung awkwardly on some people, gave rise to perversions of taste and common sense: fad diets and Tae Bo and shit-in-milk-jug art exhibits. Some people were better off poor.

  

  Craig Davidson
  • Poor
  • Wealth
  • Taste

• What's important is the work that you're doing, not the country that you're in. I would much rather be in a play at the Royal Court than in Los Angeles making 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.'

  

  James Corden
  • Work
  • Important
  • Country

• When you travel from your own country to another country for a long period, you do become aware of the differences. For example, verbal expression is much more important in France - in Finland people don't speak so much. Also, Finnish people say things directly; that kind of direct honesty would be very impolite in France.

  

  Kaija Saariaho
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Important
  • Doing
  • Easy