Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes

Work is where we build character. Work is where we create value with our lives and lift up our own souls. Work, properly understood, is the sacred practice of offering up our talents for the service of others.

Benjamin E. Sasse

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• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • God
  • Experience
  • Energy

• I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Surprise
  • Obsessed
  • Kitty

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Career
  • Political
  • Leadership

• Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Way

• I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Hip Hop
  • Chris
  • Martin

• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happiness
  • Cause
  • Others

• I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Hockey
  • Canada
  • Ice

• You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have been struggling with keeping up with demand.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • You
  • Find

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Teacher
  • Accept
  • Mediocrity

• In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company. There were salted snacks - Frito Lay. And restaurants where we had, we all talk of them, Pizza Hut, KFC and a whole bunch of casual dining chains.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Company
  • Three
  • Pizza

• I like everything that people say. No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girlfriend, you're ugly, you can't rap, you're the hardest.

  

  Young Thug
  • People
  • Nice
  • Gay

• I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Past
  • Small

• LeBron's one of the most freaky athletes of all time.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Time
  • Most
  • Athletes

• All my movies are achingly personal.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movies
  • Personal

• Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Time
  • Dream

• I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Opportunities
  • Software

• People should be going to shows to have fun and express themselves - just enjoy it!

  

  Kaytranada
  • People
  • Fun

• I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

  

  Anita Hill
  • Women
  • American
  • Community

• We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Responsibility

• Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

  

  John Morley
  • Good
  • Intelligent

• Work is where we build character. Work is where we create value with our lives and lift up our own souls. Work, properly understood, is the sacred practice of offering up our talents for the service of others.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Character
  • Value
  • Create