Jerry Bridges Quotes
God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into turn one, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love letters, death threats to white jazz critics signed 'The Mau Maus of East Harlem,' and once a year my own obituary (latest entry: 'He was promising...').
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Last night Alexis got his script for Angel. I was like, 'Oh, I would have been getting a Buffy script right now.'
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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
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Winning titles plays a big role in the Ballon d'Or race.
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There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.
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I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.
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I'm always finding a way to be successful.
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I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.
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Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.
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Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.
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God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.
