Bob Goff Quotes
Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.
Quotes to Explore
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I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
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Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.
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We may have created this projection of what God should be, as this judge or test, but the fact is, the only way we know about God is by knowing ourselves in some way. So God must be in ourselves-you can't deny that. If you say that God is somewhere else, which is what a lot of religions say, I just can't deal with it. I guess it's the difference between Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism, or something.
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We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.
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It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.
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The authors of Job and Ecclesiastes explicitly state that there is no afterlife.
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I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.
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I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.
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I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.
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That’s the thing, chato. I’m not the one to tell it, and you aren’t the one to hear it, but rest assured that it’d be pretty tough to figure out …
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I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.
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When I first heard the song 'Eruption,' which is Eddie Van Halen's most famous solo composition, I was confused because it sounded incredible, but I didn't know what it was. I didn't know if it was a guitar. I didn't know if it was a synthesizer or a keyboard. I couldn't figure it out.
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You need 10,000 hours to figure out how to be good at something and I agree with that to a certain extent. It's like everything you do to lead up to a great recording or great performance is everything you've done in the past and you can't just, it's rare that someone wakes up in a void and goes and wakes up and makes the most brilliant recording or performance.
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When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.
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There's nothing like playing at home.
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Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.
