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 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.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Kids
  • History

• When we're going to the bench, we just haven't been getting a lot of scoring lately. We have to figure out a way to do that.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Figure Out
  • Scoring

• It's hard to give someone advice when you're an institution. I don't really put a lot of pressure on it - I'm just open to doing stuff that's challenging.

  

  Nick Swardson
  • Pressure
  • Open
  • Challenging

• Pressed up against him, I can feel the thud of his heart against mine, his ribcase expanding and contracting rapidly against my chest, the warm whisper of his breath tickling the side of my neck, the brush of his leg against my thigh. Resting my arms on his shoulders, I pull back a little to get a look at his face. But he isn't smiling any more.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Up
  • Heart

• 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