John Ortberg Quotes

I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift.

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• If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Never

• The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Work
  • Beauty

• I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Work
  • Director
  • Got

• I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Society
  • Internet

• Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Harassment

• I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Money

• Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Business
  • Investment

• There are programs that don't work.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Work
  • Programs

• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Work
  • You
  • Doubt

• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Work
  • Job
  • Enough

• Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

  

  Beck
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Face
  • Fiction

• Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Guy
  • Deep
  • Alive

• The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • Time
  • Work
  • Culture

• On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

  

  Barack Obama
  • She
  • Mother
  • Church

• I think music can really affect people's emotions and, when I am about to get into a race car, I definitely listen to music with a good beat - that's when you've got the adrenalin pumping. And the time before you go into a race weekend, you have a lot of emotion and adrenalin, and a lot of focus.

  

  Allan McNish
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I enjoyed playing any type of cricket. Didn't matter what type it was because I did not want to change my game. My game was built on one type of cricket: if there was a ball to hit, you hit it, whether it was Test matches, whatever it was.

  

  Garfield Sobers
  • Game

• I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Beauty
  • Artists
  • Grotesque

• I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift.

  

  John Ortberg
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  • Church