Oswald Chambers Quotes

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Oswald Chambers

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Done
  • Because
  • Cookie

• If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Love
  • Stop

• 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
  • Simple
  • Best
  • Journey

• The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Fire

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

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Truth
  • Trust
  • Promise

• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Protect

• I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Hunger
  • Finished
  • Zombies

• I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Breakfast
  • Bread
  • Diet

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • War
  • Respect

• At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Cold
  • Grateful
  • Prison

• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beyonce

• I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Partner

• I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Singer
  • Got

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Find

• No technique is possible when men are free. … Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being. … The individual must be fashioned by techniques … in order to wipe out the blots his personal determination introduces into the perfect design of the organization.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Men
  • Free
  • Perfect

• I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.

  

  Edward Dmytryk
  • People
  • Long
  • Party

• I'm a 'never say never' girl. Frank Sinatra retired four times. He kept coming back. But there are people in our business who want to die on stage. Literally. I don't want to do that.

  

  Cilla Black
  • People
  • Business
  • Girl

• Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

  

  Delloreese Patricia Early
  • God
  • Different

• We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Teach
  • Sphere