Jerry Bridges Quotes
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
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Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.
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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
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One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.
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One of the things I like most about Caravaggio is the sense of an unfolding emotional journey you get with his art. Early Caravaggios are sarky, confident, brazen. Late Caravaggio’s are dark, exhausted, tearful. A life put through the wringer.
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Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
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At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.
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There is a difference — subtle but very significant — between having faith in my faith i.e., faith in my intellectual concepts about God — another way of saying “leaning on my own understanding and having faith in God. There is a corresponding difference between doubting my faith and doubting God.
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I warmly commend it to all Christians who want to grow in their faith.
