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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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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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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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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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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Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.
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Inspiration is not inside of us. Inspiration comes from outside. It comes from our spiritual guides and from different energies that are in the universe. If we keep in touch with god and our spiritual guides, just knowing that they exist and they are there for us, gives us the strength to say well this is a bad phase but it's going to end and when it ends I'm going to do something good.
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I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.
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'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
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I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.
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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.
