Og Mandino Quotes

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

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• One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Speak
  • Year

• The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Place
  • Ocean

• I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Feel
  • Cat
  • Retirement

• The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Trying
  • She
  • Kids

• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Pressure

• When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Real
  • Game
  • Running

• There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Point

• I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Past
  • Obstacles

• Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Children
  • Listening
  • End

• Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Poetry
  • Morality

• Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Experience
  • Years
  • Same

• I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Myself
  • See
  • Mary

• The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Internet
  • Architecture

• All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Good
  • Believe
  • True

• We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • God
  • Need
  • Hell

• I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Home
  • Ireland
  • Audition

• I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Amazing
  • Always
  • Say

• The thought of losing Ted Stevens, a man who was known to business and community leaders, Native chiefs and everyday Alaskans as Uncle Ted, is too difficult to fathom. He truly was the greatest of the Greatest Generation.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Business
  • Community
  • Everyday

• In the government, we have a very important responsibility to protect the rights of our pastors and religious leaders. They have the freedom to speak out about what they believe, without fear of repercussions from their very own government.

  

  Steve Daines
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Religious

• I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

  

  Kanye West
  • Want
  • Man
  • Too Much

• Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

  

  Joanna Russ
  • Art
  • Growth

• Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Emotions

• A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

  

  Og Mandino