Erwin McManus Quotes
Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?
Quotes to Explore
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'
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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.
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Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.
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I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around.
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Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu,pögiff,Kwii Ee.
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Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people.
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Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?
