L. Tom Perry Quotes

If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?

L. Tom Perry

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• I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Man
  • Play
  • Smartest

• I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Universe

• When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture.

  

  Preston Manning
  • High

• I think people are free to marry any way they want to. But churches are free to set standards for marriage.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • People
  • Free
  • Marriage

• Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Great
  • Business
  • Joy

• I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. 'Discreet Music' was like that, and 'Music for Airports.' What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music

• A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I can then put it together with a face, such as an artist. And then I can go into my databank of retailers and people that I've been working with through the years of retail, and then also manufacturing.

  

  Daymond John
  • People
  • Together

• If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Hand
  • Emotional
  • Smart

• Sharpe wanted to be liked by the men under his command. He was tempted to believe that if he was friendly and approachable, reasonable and kind, then his men would follow him more willingly. But kindness was not the wellspring of loyalty and he knew the temptation had to be resisted.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Kindness

• When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • American
  • Song
  • Honest

• I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!

  

  Donald Glover
  • Empty
  • Glasses
  • Sitting

• Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through these bars. . . ." "You'd get arrested all over again." "Well, you're just that tempting. Jailbait." He kissed her fingers, which made her shiver all over; his lips lingered warm on her skin, reminding her of what it felt like to be alone with him, in that timeless...

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Long
  • Alone
  • Moment

• I want to raise my kids, I want to get them through their teenage years. ... I do love my work with the UN and with PSVI so if I can do more of that and be more effective I will do whatever I can.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Work
  • Love
  • Kids

• One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • People
  • Different
  • Trouble

• Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.

  

  Babette Deutsch
  • Important
  • Success
  • Reality

• No one chooses to raise children alone.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Children
  • Alone
  • Raises

• The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Beast
  • Bars
  • Cage

• I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.

  

  Ai-jen Poo
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Live

• Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

  

  Ernest Poole
  • House
  • Cutting
  • Grows

• When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Progress
  • Ambitions
  • Boundless

• Have this Chet Baker movie coming out and in that situation, I went down the rabbit hole studying Chet Baker and being obsessed with the period and the music and the relationships and the dynamic, and everything, drug addiction. There was so much I wanted to get at to kind of get at the truth. With Regression, I was certainly in Alejandro's Amenabar hands.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Music
  • Truth
  • Relationships

• If only one country, for whatever reason, tolerates a Jewish family in it, that family will become the germ center for fresh sedition. If one little Jewish boy survives without any Jewish education, with no synagogue and no Hebrew school, it [Judaism] is in his soul. Even if there had never been a synagogue or a Jewish school or an Old Testament, the Jewish spirit would still exist and exert its influence. It has been there from the beginning and there is no Jew, not a single one, who does not personify it.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Family
  • Jewish
  • Tolerates

• I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

  

  Joshua Ferris
  • World
  • Effort
  • Meaning

• If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?

  

  L. Tom Perry
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  • Raising The Bar