John Ortberg Quotes
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
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My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.
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Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.
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The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.
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Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.
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So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.
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Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
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I'm a big fan of what Salesforce has achieved.
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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
