Bob Goff Quotes

Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.

Bob Goff

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• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Lose
  • Praise
  • Half

• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Difficult

• But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Tree

• Luxury is a state of mind.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Mind
  • State
  • Luxury

• We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Better
  • Mental Illness

• For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Way
  • Me
  • Experiences

• Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Book
  • True
  • Future

• The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Country
  • Truth
  • Death

• I wanted to see the score! What do you got to do that's so important? You can't join the religious cult with me!

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Important
  • Religious

• Ch'un almo gaudio, un così gran contentoNon potrebbe comprare oro né argento.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Why
  • History
  • Blue

• You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Work
  • May
  • Determination

• My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Being in a band with my wife, I'm very aware of the multitude of ways that can go wrong. We're best friends and are interested in the same things, so it's natural to make music together.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Together

• Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

  

  Al McGuire
  • Time
  • Important
  • War

• In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

  

  Alan Kulwicki
  • Life
  • Game

• Now, if I speak to people who want to act, I say, 'Don't give yourself a back-up.' If I had gone to university, I wouldn't be doing this job now. Having that pressure and no other option just made me work that much harder for it, because you have no other choice.

  

  Tuppence Middleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • High
  • Failure
  • Tolerance

• I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out.

  

  Paula Poundstone
  • Life
  • Work
  • Kids

• It's been somewhat of a tumultuous season despite being 21-1 at this point. That's everyday life at New London and we know how to deal with that and move on.

  

  Craig Parker
  • Life
  • Season
  • Tumultuous

• Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Life
  • Jesus