Bob Goff Quotes

Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that.

Bob Goff

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• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Want
  • Saying

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• 'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Believe
  • Funny

• I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Real
  • School
  • Career

• I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Literature
  • Luck
  • Loved

• I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Like
  • Internet
  • Going

• One of my favorites is Angela Merkel because I think she's been an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe, which has obvious implications for the rest of the world and, most particularly, our country... her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Country
  • She

• A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.

  

  Claud Cockburn
  • She
  • Christian
  • Serious

• Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Winning

• With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.

  

  Jason Dolley
  • People

• At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Family
  • Law
  • Son

• I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.

  

  Claire Forlani
  • Friend
  • Vacation

• Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Up
  • God
  • Lost

• I'd love to have tea and scones with the Queen; she's my idol.

  

  Agyness Deyn
  • She
  • Tea

• Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Remember

• The music I make, I'm different.

  

  Future
  • Music
  • Different

• Part of the mystique of blogs is their protean quality: They work both sides of the divide between politics and media, further blurring the already fuzzy distinctions between reporter, pundit, political operative, activist, and citizen.

  

  George Packer
  • Work
  • Political
  • Quality

• When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

  

  Mike Vogel
  • Sometimes
  • Knows
  • Choose

• As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Long
  • History
  • Hope

• Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death. Because it’s not just the music that makes that band her favorite. It’s the guys, the gals. It’s the fans. People whom of which she has interacted with thanks to the band. That band might of saved her life, or just made her smile everyday. That band has never broke her heart and has yet to leave her. No wonder she finds such joy in her music.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Freedom
  • Joy
  • Crime

• Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Joy
  • Figure Out
  • Fuels