Chip Ingram Quotes

Our violent, narcissistic, noncommittal, “me first” culture is simply the logical and predictable expression of “truth” as a relative, subjective, unverifiable concept.

Chip Ingram

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Find
  • Loss
  • Moving On

• Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Everyone
  • Apple
  • Mobile

• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Cool

• It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Present

• When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Good
  • Like
  • Stage

• I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Want
  • Always

• I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.

  

  Karla Souza
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Men
  • Stop
  • Three

• We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.

  Gail Devers
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Blessing

• Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Guy
  • Sun

• The soul of man may be divided into two parts; that which has reason in itself, and that which hath not, but is capable of obeying its dictates.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Reason

• There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It's not everybody holding hands and singing 'Kumbaya.' People have very different perspectives.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Different
  • Community

• But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Time
  • Focus

• Whether you are Hillary Clinton or any other lefty out there, you better beware because Trey Gowdy is out there, and he is going to get you.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann

• I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

  

  James Newman

• The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You can succeed in doing all the things you're supposed to do - be truthful to scene - and if it's not funny, I'm telling you that no one's gonna care.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Truth
  • Funny

• Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

  

  Pope Francis
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Wall

• Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • English

• I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Mind
  • Mother
  • Father

• Our violent, narcissistic, noncommittal, “me first” culture is simply the logical and predictable expression of “truth” as a relative, subjective, unverifiable concept.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • Truth
  • Culture
  • Expression