Brother Lawrence Quotes
We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.
Quotes to Explore
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.
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I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
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I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
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All Russia is our orchard.
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But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together.
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I actually believe in love between men. I’m not talking about gay love. It’s much more powerful and our wives sometimes don’t understand that their husbands or boyfriends or whatever can have this intensity of a relationship with a man. I look at him as somebody I could depend on.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.
