Bob Goff Quotes

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

Bob Goff

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • People
  • May
  • Reality

• We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Show
  • Demand
  • Human Rights

• In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Up
  • Me
  • Color

• The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Fantasy
  • Luxury
  • Middle East

• I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Think
  • Study
  • Start

• Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • School
  • High

• One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Loving
  • Temper
  • Temperamental

• To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed - it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reading

• There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Power

• His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Health
  • Ignorance

• You know it I know it Why don't you Just show it You got a lot of money but you can't afford the freeway

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Money
  • Why

• My parents came over from Barbados in the late 1950s and early '60s.

  

  David Harewood
  • Parents

• I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Party
  • Tea

• I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Why
  • Brother
  • Passionate

• You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Desires
  • Fairytales
  • Briton

• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Understand

• If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.

  

  Merle Dandridge
  • Learned
  • Female
  • Boundaries

• Every check-in should mean something. Foursquare should get smarter every time that you continue to check in. We should be able to offer special deals that you may be interested in, and we should be able to offer recommendations for the type of things you should do next.

  

  Dennis Crowley
  • Time
  • May

• The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Friends
  • Learned
  • Teachers