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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• 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
  • Never
  • Film

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  David Crane
  • Stop

• I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.

  

  Chris Farley
  • Time
  • Motivated

• We encourage employees to ship new features on day one, which immediately encourages them to come up with something creative and different.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Up
  • Different

• My favorite Duke player ever is Steve Wojciechowski. He called me one day congratulating me on my success thus far, and I was like,'I appreciate it, but man, please don't congratulate me. I know when you guys start the season, you're not just trying to be 10-10 or ACC champions, you're trying to win it all.'

  

  Mike Posner
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Player

• Hard times always lead to something great.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Great

• A lot of the songs that I wrote during 'Pt. 1' and 'Pt. 2' are the first songs that I ever wrote that sounded like that. I was in this phase - a certain creative space in my life - personally and musically.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • Life
  • Space

• Hillary Clinton can never claim to be a friend of the gay community as long as she continues to support immigration policies that bring Islamic extremists to our country and who suppress women, gays and anyone who doesn’t share their views or values.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Long
  • Women
  • Country

• Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Rock
  • Sports

• Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • Good
  • Today
  • Attitude

• A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

  

  Martin H. Fischer
  • Good
  • Teacher

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

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Attitude
  • Pride
  • Humility