Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
Quotes to Explore
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
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I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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Standup really is a young man's game, a single young man's game. Even when I was younger, when I wasn't single, it was hard to be on the road because you go through relationships because your girlfriend kinda got tired of you being gone.
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
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So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
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You can beat a dead horse as much as you want, but it doesn't come back to life. And sometimes you just have to change things up to keep the excitement and enthusiasm in the sport.
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There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
