Andy Wilkinson Quotes

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

Andy Wilkinson

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• I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Myself
  • Present
  • Macho

• Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • God
  • Love

• My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • People
  • Trying
  • War

• I think probably the majority of political actions don't go the way people are going to go. Just because there were unexpected consequences and maybe not the resolution people would have liked to have been seen doesn't mean it was less valid of an action.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Political
  • Action

• When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Profound

• I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • People
  • Daughter
  • Responsible

• It`s not our conditions, but our decisions that shape our lives. I truly believe that it`s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. So choose carefully what things mean, and what to do about them. With conscious focus, a connection with our loving nature, and a desire to serve, we truly can experience heaven while still here on earth.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Believe
  • Mean
  • Focus

• The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Notes
  • Arpeggios

• Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Hotel
  • Mexico
  • Mississippi

• When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Wants
  • Necessity
  • Reverse

• Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

  

  Rita Hayworth
  • Actor
  • Hollywood
  • Director

• when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Men
  • Children
  • Nature

• I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.

  

  Andrew Hollander
  • Friends
  • Beginning
  • Piano

• This is how readers over the years have come up with the famous “seven last words of the dying Jesus”—by taking what he says at his death in all four Gospels, mixing them together, and imagining that in their combination they now have the full story. This interpretive move does not give the full story. It gives a fifth story, a story that is completely unlike any of the canonical four, a fifth story that in effect rewrites the Gospels, producing a fifth Gospel. This

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Jesus
  • Story
  • Combination

• Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

  

  Betty Edwards
  • Knowledge
  • Teacher
  • Empathy

• Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

  

  Wynton Marsalis
  • Musician
  • Listeners

• The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Speak

• I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

  

  Justin Long
  • Reading
  • Myself
  • Effort

• Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

  

  Andy Wilkinson
  • Readers
  • Listeners
  • Devout