John Ortberg Quotes

Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly.

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• I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Love
  • Game
  • Lucky

• We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Myself
  • Intellectual
  • Were

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Help

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • More
  • White

• I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Different
  • Me
  • New York

• The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • School
  • America
  • High

• I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • History
  • English

• Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Rock
  • My Life

• Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • You
  • Effort
  • Improve

• Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Music
  • Style

• I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Live
  • Me
  • Eat

• I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Air

• I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.

  

  Babyface
  • Work
  • Great
  • Perfect

• I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Vision
  • Protect

• To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio - not a lot - depending on what time you go.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Time
  • Great
  • Radio

• I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Negative

• To simply demand that Assad go, and create a vacuum, could make the circumstances worse. To 'protect' Assad and his brutality is unconscionable. So you have to have a transition period here.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Period

• My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • Mom
  • Smile
  • Hug

• I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Child

• I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I think what I understand more than that is people... Ultimately, I think businesses fail and people fail because they don't have their act together.

  

  Marcus Lemonis
  • People
  • Great
  • Business

• Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly.

  

  John Ortberg
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