Rick Warren Quotes
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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In the broader sense at Digitas, I've been very involved in media and publishing.
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It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
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I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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And understand: class differences will not save you.
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New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say.
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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
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But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
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Evil changes everybody!
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I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.
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The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.
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You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
