N.D. Wilson Quotes

It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.

N.D. Wilson

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• Talent is very hot.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Talent
  • Very
  • Hot

• Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunity
  • Action
  • Survival

• The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Change

• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Acting
  • Objective

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Ethics
  • Quiet
  • Stone

• I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Experience
  • Future

• If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Up
  • Blow

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • High
  • Always
  • Quirky

• I married beneath me, all women do.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Women
  • Me
  • Marriage

• Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Dark
  • Television

• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Accomplishment
  • Desires

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Thought
  • Scared
  • Floating

• I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• When people are like, 'College! Oh my God! Ultimate freedom!' I didn't feel that way. My roommates were loving hitting the town, but I wasn't as psyched about going to the frats.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • People
  • God
  • Freedom

• From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

  

  Francois Rabelais

• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hate

• It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • God
  • Stop
  • Sleep