Todd Burpo Quotes

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

Todd Burpo

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• Honesty
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• Intellectual
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• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Doing

• Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Imagination
  • Matter

• Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Football
  • Nothing
  • Pop

• I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Remember

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Morning
  • Three
  • Ship

• The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Best
  • Baseball
  • Homework

• It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Way
  • Reason
  • Happen

• Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Up
  • Obstacles
  • Walk

• I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Women
  • Write
  • Weak

• 'Piss on etiquette,' Threpe said petulantly. 'Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Rude

• ...We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Action

• A fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

  

  Lloyd Bentsen
  • Texas

• We can freely acknowledge the tremendous struggle ahead of us, and yet choose to remain decidedly optimistic, and to work from a fundamental belief in the possibilities of the future. … Every time we explain how a better future might be built, we redraw the boundaries of the possible.

  

  Alex Steffen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Future

• You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Life
  • God

• Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • May
  • Courage

• If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • Good

• Supposing you knew - not by sight or by instinct, but by sheer intellectual knowledge, as I know the truth of a mathematical proposition - that what we call empty space was full, crammed. Not with lumps of what we call matter like hills and houses, but with things as real - as real to the mind.

  

  John Buchan
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Truth

• The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Control
  • Purpose

• I've never felt limited by my circumstances, no matter what they were. Even when I was living in Iowa, it wasn't like I had big dreams, but it wasn't that I felt I couldn't have any. I always felt very capable.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • Dream
  • Circumstances
  • Capable

• I love to cook and I cook to love.

  

  Elizabeth Falkner
  • I Love
  • Cook

• People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.

  

  Jim Lehrer
  • People
  • Worry
  • Sorry

• It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

  

  Todd Burpo
  • Reality
  • Ignorance
  • Honesty