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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'What harm have the trees done them?' he said. 'Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are savages, who would set a land afire because they have a quarrel with other men.'
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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
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I am very fortunate to work with people I have seen on the screen so many times and admired, and they are in the public eye, and I have seen how they handle it. There are definitely ways to just keep on enjoying the profession and the work. Other people tell me that things are going to change.
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When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
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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.
