John Ortberg Quotes
A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.
Quotes to Explore
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.
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Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
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My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
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'Outlander' is filmed mostly around Glasgow and the central belt of Scotland, so it's lovely for me because I get to go up and spend time in the place that I lived for three years. I've got a bunch of friends in the cast because a lot of them studied at the same college as I did, and I get to see my family, most of whom now live in Scotland.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
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I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.
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A white woman with a camera in the Devadasi belt of Karnataka is not inconspicuous... it took time for these women to believe that I was not an official, carrying the threat of fine and imprisonment.
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You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
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I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.
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I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.
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A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.
