Bob Goff Quotes

What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

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• I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • School
  • Day
  • Sick

• I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Important
  • Me
  • Myself

• Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Problem
  • Moral
  • Economic

• If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Process

• The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Good
  • Party

• Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Love
  • Food

• Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

  

  James Brown
  • Family
  • Hell
  • Beats

• Yeah, she was hot, all right, but I think she had the hots for you - kept saying how she saw you over at the Waterhouse last year and you were all, like, wow, amazing. It was like a menage a trois, only you weren't there, thank God.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • God
  • She
  • Amazing

• I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • World
  • She
  • History

• I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all.

  

  Lily King
  • Family
  • Voice
  • Screaming

• The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind back in politics, in economics, in industry, in science, in philosophy, in culture.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • History
  • Science
  • Culture

• Sex is where you find it. I say take it and enjoy it. Give and receive freely, without fear, without guilt and without contractual obligations.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Fear
  • Sex

• I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Stuff
  • Gambling

• I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Parents
  • Community
  • Stories

• I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Lying

• I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Here is this ability to explore ideas, but with minute changes, and then look at the results. Often you get so excited about what you're doing that you think, "Oh, wow, this is just great." And you look at it a week later and you realize you'd been excited by the act of creation, but what you've created is not really exciting when you look at it in cold blood. And so that, to me, is a valuable lesson also.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Cold
  • Ability
  • Week

• It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • You
  • Enough
  • Swing

• Never let anyone or anything define your value or limit your dream.

  

  Judy Sheindlin
  • Dream
  • Limit
  • Define

• What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Define
  • Pitch
  • Swing