Bob Goff Quotes

God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.

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• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • America

• We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Remember
  • House
  • Act

• Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

  

  Carey Williams
  • Change
  • Daughter
  • Farmer

• I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Control

• I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Hate
  • Others
  • Interfere

• I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Work
  • Like
  • Hoard

• Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Love
  • Done
  • Small

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Career
  • Boxes
  • Just Because

• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Joke
  • Call
  • Colleagues

• I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Team
  • Me

• Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Work
  • United States

• I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Want
  • Movies

• Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Today
  • Write
  • Give

• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they would be reassembled together so as to make a clear and coherent picture. At the moment the important thing was the selection, the separation.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Important
  • Together
  • Picture

• As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Energy

• Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • God
  • Faith
  • Effort

• I love to sing all kinds of music, but I know that my heart is for people to know God, and I want them to experience his love.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!

  

  Peter Farrelly
  • Good
  • Bad

• God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • Meaningful
  • Wants