Richard Paul Evans Quotes

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

Richard Paul Evans

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• The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Time
  • Me
  • Opportunities

• I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Friends
  • Artists

• And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Bored
  • Worst
  • Destructive

• The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Kids

• There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • World
  • Strong
  • Difference

• Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Nature

• We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Peace
  • Chaos
  • Forces

• Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Forces
  • Activest

• Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Enemy
  • Forces
  • Attack

• You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Speak
  • Conscience
  • Forces

• Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Child
  • Forces
  • Work Of God

• Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Creative
  • Choice
  • Lives

• The three adults in the New Jersey case may all be excellent parents individually, but they should not have tried to create a family together, surely they knew at the outset that their ‘family’ had unequal support for one of the three adults and was inherently unstable as a result. Possibly their enthusiasm for raising a child caused them to overlook this fact, but it could not be overlooked for 18 years.

  

  Amy Ridenour
  • Family
  • Child
  • Create

• We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Nature
  • Ignorance
  • Tolerance

• Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • Hell
  • Left
  • Raising

• Many of our forces collapsed when Daesh rolled into Iraq.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Forces
  • Iraq
  • Daesh

• But especially if you are dependent on others—if you are the boss or senior person trying to increase the likelihood that your subordinates will help you and be open with you—then Humble Inquiry will not only be desirable but essential. Why is this so difficult? We need next to look at the cultural forces that favor telling.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Help
  • Forces
  • Dependent

• With the type of actor I am, which includes really diving into a role and making it as real as possible, there's nothing better than working in a real environment on location. It forces you to feel what the character's feeling, and it allows you to live in the space of the character.

  

  Michael Eklund
  • Character
  • Space
  • Environment

• There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • World
  • Needs
  • Filmmaker

• Here. After so long waiting. Her purple eyes. Torn cloak. Skin pale, sheer as ice. Exhausted. But unafraid.

  

  Edith Pattou
  • Eyes
  • Exhausted
  • Unafraid

• Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.

  

  Ted Shawn
  • Music
  • Art
  • Words

• I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Army
  • Trained

• Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

  

  Tony Blair
  • History
  • Struggle
  • Loss

• Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

  

  Richard Paul Evans
  • Forces
  • Destructive
  • Raising