Bob Goff Quotes
Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.
Quotes to Explore
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
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Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
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This is my impression of a Southern woman. 'Tsk, I am so mad at the Taliban right now!'
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I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
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There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.
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You can't be hesitant about who you are.
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Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.
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When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart.
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Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.
