Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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I'm not hard to get along with.
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After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.
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I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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The artist's business requires his involvement in practically everything. He works in reference, not to a section of the world, but to the whole world.
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She walks-the lady of my delight-A shepherdess of sheep.Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;She keeps them from the steep
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The advice I tell students is to think about the big problems. I mean, work on anything you can work on where you can make progress. But always keep in mind the big problems.
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One of the things we're trying to do more of is not just take money from corporate partnerships, but get more involved in the business side for when I retire. So Puma are going to make me an ambassador for life. I have a clothing line coming out. I am investing a lot in housing in Jamaica, buildings for rent.
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Battle Creek has such a rich history of entrepreneurs and invention, and it seems some of that spirit had died down. I'd like to see it back.
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Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
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We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.
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Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.
