Bob Goff Quotes

Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple, but it's been working for me.

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• I grew up on films.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Up
  • Films
  • Grew

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • True
  • Control
  • Military

• Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Giving

• I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Culture
  • City

• I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Space
  • Lived
  • Buildings

• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Experience
  • Present
  • Childhood

• Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • People
  • Kids
  • American

• I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Me
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• I exist as I am, that is enough.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Enough
  • Exist

• Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Football

• I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Like

• You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • You
  • Eating
  • Eat

• Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Imagine

• I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Great
  • Men

• Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.

  

  T. H. White
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Fear

• If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • You
  • Hard
  • Oil

• Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to play what I hear in my head - that is the ultimate source of frustration.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • Able
  • Frustration
  • Fingers

• I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • People
  • World
  • Simple

• Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Simple
  • Wonder
  • Spring

• Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple, but it's been working for me.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Simple
  • Working
  • Terrible