Erwin McManus Quotes

Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.

Erwin McManus

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• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • You
  • Years

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Never

• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Moon
  • Solar

• I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Discipline
  • Losing
  • View

• If the books are selling, the money will follow.

  

  Larry Kirshbaum
  • Money
  • Follow
  • Selling

• Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

  

  Hans Blix
  • You
  • Television
  • Between

• I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• The Egyptian officers informed me that I would be denied entry, and I was soon deported back to Yemen on the same plane on which I had arrived. The authorities gave me no clear answer why: They said that I knew the reason for my deportation better than them, and that my name had been blacklisted based on the request of a security body.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Why

• I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • God
  • Death

• I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.

  

  Arlen Specter
  • Responsibility

• Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

  

  Albert Finney
  • People
  • Life
  • Text

• Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thinking
  • Respect
  • Democracy

• This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.

  

  Ayman Odeh
  • Black
  • Law
  • Evil

• It's truly disheartening to me to see so many beautiful women who have no idea what their potential is.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • People
  • Country
  • Bad

• I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.

  

  Jools Holland
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Style
  • Pushing
  • Original

• A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

  

  Max Muller
  • Live
  • Flower
  • Sunshine

• I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Remember
  • Star
  • Courage

• My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Film
  • Actors
  • Shadow

• Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Attitude
  • Pride
  • Humility