Erwin McManus Quotes
Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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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.
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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.
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I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.
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This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.
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It's truly disheartening to me to see so many beautiful women who have no idea what their potential is.
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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.
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We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.
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I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.
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We encourage employees to ship new features on day one, which immediately encourages them to come up with something creative and different.
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Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
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There was a concept a long time ago that you would do a different type of reactor called a "fast reactor," that would make a bunch of another element called plutonium, and then you would pull that out, and then you would burn that. That's called "breeding" in a fast reactor. That is bad because plutonium is nuclear weapons material. It's messy. The processing you have to get through is not only environmentally difficultly, it's extremely expensive.
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The cross is the greatest example of humility and devotion in the universe. Jesus put your needs ahead of His own. He considered you more valuable than Himself.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
