Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Russell M. Nelson

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• I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Entertained

• People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Up
  • Art
  • Soul

• Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Walk

• I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Girl

• I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time incorporating themes that speak to my heart.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Character

• I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Work
  • Favorite
  • Directors

• I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Power
  • Society
  • Hate

• All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Power

• The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

  

  Ai Weiwei

• Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.

  

  Annie Dillard
  • Up
  • She
  • Water

• At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Happy
  • Door

• I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Time
  • Long

• The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • House

• What matters is that there is somewhere for those who are troubled, threatened or afraid to turn to in their darkest hour. What matters is that there are those who are willing and able to use the law as an instrument of inclusion, of protection, and of freedom.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Real

• If Republicans truly are dedicated to the sanctity of life, they should be the first ones on the front lines trying to get policies for the uninsured.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Life
  • Trying

• The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.

  

  James Gray
  • Good
  • Family
  • Support

• I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Care

• For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Money
  • Fall
  • Phoenix

• Songs Like Mony Mony aren't really written, they're sort of hanging in space - waiting to be found - I'm just thankful we found this one.

  

  Tommy James
  • Space
  • Songs
  • Found

• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Evil
  • Worry
  • Madness

• In fiction we say and recognize things about ourselves, which, for the sake of propriety, we ignore or don't talk about in reality.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Reality
  • Fiction
  • Recognize

• It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

  

  Russell M. Nelson