John Ortberg Quotes
When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.
Quotes to Explore
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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The world is always terrible.
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I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
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I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.
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But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.
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Election losses are always an inkblot test for partisans. If a candidate's defeat has no clear and obvious cause, if the data points are all over the map, it is easy for those on the sidelines to claim, 'Candidate X would have won if only he or she had been more like... me.'
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River City Improv set the stage for my career.
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My grandma once told my mama, 'The kid's walking crazy around the cornfield, talking to himself.' I was calling ballgames.
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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
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When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.
