Bob Goff Quotes
I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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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.
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I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.
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Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
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Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.
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And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
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Though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.
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Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
