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

• 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
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  • Time
  • Work

• I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Poetry

• As for indie writers, a lot of them don't realize that they're in the hurry-up-and-wait business, not the wait-and-hurry-up business. They work really, really, really hard at goosing the first-month sales, and then getting disappointed when those sales either go down or never happen in the first place.

  

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Feeling
  • Winning
  • Gold

• I look at Las Vegas, and I see the absolute best of what we are as Americans, and I see the absolute worst, in the same city.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • City
  • Vegas

• I love Cee Lo, but I avoid him when he's holding that smelly cat.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Cat

• Too often today people are ready to tell us: 'This is not possible, that is not possible.' I say: whatever the true interest of our country calls for is always possible.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • People
  • Country
  • True

• 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