Chip Ingram Quotes

Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.

Chip Ingram

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• I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Music
  • Books
  • Lie

• I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Small
  • Day

• Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Reveal

• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • Artist

• I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • She
  • Think

• I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • New
  • Involved

• A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Age
  • Father
  • Man

• I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Proud
  • Pride
  • Iranian

• For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Made
  • Just

• Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Real
  • Education
  • Understanding

• An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Practice
  • More
  • Preaching

• I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Peace
  • Thought
  • Desert

• I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Start

• I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Black
  • Woman
  • Angry

• I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Structure
  • Interview
  • Mass

• I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Time
  • Desire
  • Look

• Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Mean
  • Morality
  • Paradox

• I wish we had more diversity.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Wish
  • Diversity
  • I Wish

• I'm fascinated by animals and couldn't live without Dewy, my Boston bulldog.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Live

• It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Profound

• We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: - the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, - the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.

  

  John Ruskin
  • People
  • Men
  • History

• Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • God
  • Never
  • Hopeless