Bob Goff Quotes
People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.
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I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
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I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.
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Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.
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People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.
