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.

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• I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Guitar
  • Rhythm
  • Strum

• Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Logic
  • Events
  • Ridicule

• 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.

  

  Selma Blair
  • Judging
  • Christianity
  • Buddhism

• We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Risk
  • Values
  • Celebrate

• It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.

  

  Cara Lockwood
  • Never
  • Hurt
  • Chance

• The authors of Job and Ecclesiastes explicitly state that there is no afterlife.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Job
  • State
  • Authors

• 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.

  

  Michael Hastings
  • Life
  • Perspective
  • Difficult

• 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.

  

  Thandie Newton
  • Persons
  • Passings
  • Ageing

• I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Cancer
  • Population
  • Percent

• 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 …

  

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • Rest
  • Thing
  • Figure Out

• 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.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Life
  • Things
  • Figure Out

• I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Figure Out

• 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.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Guitar
  • Composition
  • Figure Out

• 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.

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • Performance
  • Recording
  • Figure Out

• If we want to get to the source of what we feel, we need to figure out what we believe and value.

  

  Carolyn Mahaney
  • Believe
  • Value
  • Feel

• Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

  

  Steven Pressfield
  • First
  • Figure Out
  • Scares

• Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Opportunity
  • Energy
  • Idiots

• Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Figure Out
  • Stop Doing