Erwin McManus Quotes

Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?

Erwin McManus

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• I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • America
  • Team

• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • School
  • Word
  • Performance

• 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.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Song
  • Process

• One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Black
  • Greatest
  • Feminism

• I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Looking
  • Got
  • Six

• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Writing
  • Small
  • Child

• 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.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Free

• Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Dream
  • Follow
  • Fellow

• Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Family
  • Strong

• 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.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Day
  • Basketball
  • Year

• Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mind
  • You
  • Imagination

• Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Change
  • Safety
  • Stock

• I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Work
  • Job
  • Play

• There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Something
  • Movement

• 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.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Childhood

• 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!'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Party

• 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.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • People
  • School
  • College

• How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?

  

  Zell Miller
  • People
  • Great

• People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

  

  Princess Diana
  • People
  • Job

• Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in The Noise of Time and happened to have been saved by M.'s father. Most of them later perished in Kalinin when I was fleeing from the Germans. The way we have scurried to and fro in the twentieth century, trapped between Hitler and Stalin!

  

  Nadezhda Mandelstam
  • Books
  • Saved
  • Perished

• As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Women
  • War
  • Future

• Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Future
  • Creative Act
  • Materialization