Bob Goff Quotes
Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.
Quotes to Explore
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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Are there women in your world now that have given you those lessons in confidence? Oh absolutely. Meryl [Streep] does it all the time. I think she does it in a way that she doesn't even understand or think she's doing it.
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If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative action programs. One of those conditions would be an economic policy that would create tight labor markets over long periods of time. Now does that mean that affirmative action is here only temporarily? I think the ultimate goal should be to remove it.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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Knowledge is governed not by a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
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I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening next; they mean they are so mesmerised by the writer's voice and the relationship that has been established that they don't want to break that. That's what I feel when I read, and I'm sure now that that's what's going on in the relationship between the reader and the writing.
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A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.
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It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.
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When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.
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I have thought about posterity all my life. There isn't as much adventure and creative unfolding as there is in planting a garden and watching it grow. It's like watching the film grow, because you don't know what the seed of an idea is going to actually result in.
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Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.
