Wilfred Funk Quotes

The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Wilfred Funk

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• Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Me
  • Struggle
  • Easy

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Children
  • Today
  • House

• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Why
  • Job
  • Day

• Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Something
  • Afraid
  • Intimacy

• The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Laughter
  • Laugh
  • Knowing

• Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Soul
  • Best
  • Her

• Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

  

  Major Owens
  • School
  • Together
  • Education

• What the event will be like, being part of the Olympics and being in London, is too much to think about. You've no control over those things, so in a way, it's wasted energy to think of them.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Energy
  • Control
  • London

• We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Problems
  • Solve

• Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Process

• 'And we jolly green giants cuz we smoke so much broccoli'

  

  Ludacris
  • Green

• Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Trying
  • Night

• I've seen numerous situations where collectors have taken more than the agreed-upon amount from someone's account once they gained access.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Taken

• I went from unknown to having no anonymity.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Unknown

• If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to work this out within ourselves. A very key spiritual principle, echoed in the Cayce readings as well as mainstream psychology, is that whatever we see in others that makes us angry, sad or jealous is a reflection of an issue we have in ourselves. If we can learn to love, respect and forgive ourselves, then we will not be angered and offended by what we see in others.

  

  David Wilcock
  • World
  • Work
  • Respect

• "Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and the waves is rowling. Think on it when the stormy nights is so pitch dark," said the Captain, solemnly holding up his hook, "as you can't see your hand afore you, excepting when the wiwid lightning reweals the same; and when you drive, drive, drive through the storm and dark, as if you was a driving, head on, to the world without end."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Think
  • Storm
  • Element

• For Komen, for myself, the mission was always foremost in everyone's mind. The mission and the women that we serve. The only group that made this issue political has been Planned Parenthood.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Political

• I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Long-winded

• I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Done
  • Driving

• The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

  

  Wilfred Funk
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Ideas