John Ortberg Quotes

I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism.

John Ortberg

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• I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Like
  • Dance

• All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Agreed
  • Fable

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Lost
  • Moments
  • Risk

• I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Like
  • Awesome
  • Brilliant

• My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • Education
  • Duty
  • Bear

• You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • You
  • Quality
  • Percent

• Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Money
  • Art
  • Way

• Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • America
  • Best

• Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

  

  Dan Savage
  • War
  • Bible
  • Slavery

• I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Year
  • Toddler

• I'm basically nocturnal.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Basically
  • Nocturnal

• There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Real

• The first fundamental law of the universe is the law of three forces, of three principles, or , as it is often called, the law of three. According to this law every action, every phenomenon in all worlds without exception, is the result of a simultaneous action of three forces- the positive, the negative, and the neutralizing.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Law
  • Action
  • Universe

• My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Interests

• If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

  

  Tom Conti
  • Girl
  • Profession

• I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres of labor the greater part of our life's toil and moil will of a surety end, as the wise man predicted, in vanity and vexation of spirit, here is instant physical refreshment in the work the garden entails, and, in the end, our labor will be crowned with flowers.

  

  J. D. Sedding
  • Tools
  • Line
  • Print

• I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism.

  

  John Ortberg