John Ortberg Quotes
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
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Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.
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A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
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When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.
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It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
