Francis Chan Quotes

We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.

Francis Chan

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• Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Love
  • Service

• The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror

• I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Television

• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • War
  • Always
  • Human

• It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • School
  • Girl
  • Name

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Real
  • Future
  • Start

• Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • People
  • You
  • Beginnings

• We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Try
  • Property
  • Rather

• Make yourself necessary to somebody.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Yourself
  • Make
  • Somebody

• I'm taking a vow not to advise.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Taking
  • Advise
  • Vow

• In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Think
  • Change
  • Did

• I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Understand
  • Explore
  • Little

• For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Truth
  • Pretty
  • Career

• If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Girl

• I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Happy

• When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

  

  John Sandford
  • People
  • Character

• To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Men
  • Nature

• The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness. This world is not perfect. There are problems. But things like happiness and unhappiness are relative. Realizing this gives you hope.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • World
  • Hope

• The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life. The sun will not rise, or set, without my notice, and thanks.

  

  Winslow Homer
  • Giving
  • Balance
  • Thanks

• We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Giving
  • Made
  • Alive