Carl Lentz Quotes

What makes you the most insecure in life? Is it the success of others? Is it people who are doing what you want to do someday but you can’t do currently? Is it constant comparison to people and things that are not even running the same race as you? Do the exact opposite of what insecurity tells you to do. Cheer for somebody who is winning when you’re tempted to tear them down. Reach out to the person who you wish would reach out to you. When comparison creeps in, remind yourself that you are content simply being you. Insecurity’s grip on your life is not as tight as you may imagine.

Carl Lentz

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• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Man

• I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Cooking

• Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Style
  • Rock
  • Guitar

• Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Playing
  • Musical
  • Group

• Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Smart
  • Emotion
  • Face

• When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Need
  • Trouble
  • Bank

• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Great
  • History

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Good
  • Football
  • Loved

• Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Word
  • Read

• I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Speed
  • Ball
  • Course

• My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Couple
  • Weird
  • Cutting

• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Pilots

• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Botox

• I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Run

• As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Team

• There's no reason to regret anything. Regret is a waste.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Reason
  • Regret
  • Waste

• The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Battle
  • Novel
  • Bottle

• Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • People
  • Time

• What makes you the most insecure in life? Is it the success of others? Is it people who are doing what you want to do someday but you can’t do currently? Is it constant comparison to people and things that are not even running the same race as you? Do the exact opposite of what insecurity tells you to do. Cheer for somebody who is winning when you’re tempted to tear them down. Reach out to the person who you wish would reach out to you. When comparison creeps in, remind yourself that you are content simply being you. Insecurity’s grip on your life is not as tight as you may imagine.

  

  Carl Lentz
  • People
  • Life
  • You