Philip Yancey Quotes
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'
Quotes to Explore
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.
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The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'
