Boyd K. Packer Quotes

Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.

Boyd K. Packer

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• I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Book
  • Reading

• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Real

• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Me

• I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Doing
  • Jump
  • Comfort

• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Morning

• I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Done
  • Weird
  • Doing

• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Danger
  • Paul

• Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Honesty

• I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Lost

• I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Pink
  • Shades

• Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word 'text' unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Eyes
  • Hand
  • Text

• A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate.

  

  Doug LaMalfa
  • People
  • Heart
  • Church

• My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Experience
  • Job

• I really like beef jerky. If we go to a gas station, I have to buy beef jerky.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski

• It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Work
  • Important
  • Environment

• I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as many people as I can.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • People
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I want to say, 'I see a bus full of people,' I don't have to say, 'I am a Negro seeing a bus full of people.'

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Great
  • Travel

• I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Long
  • Black

• If I see someone saying the rosary in the wings, I know they've got talent.

  

  Elaine Stritch

• The central message is still that, as Keynes argued, fiscal policy is the answer to liquidity traps, financial or political. The arguments against fiscal policy in Japan, so far as I understand them are intellectually fallacious; they would receive failing grades in an undergraduate macro exam.

  

  James Tobin
  • Political
  • Financial

• Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Wisdom
  • Leadership
  • Judgement

• It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it is a miracle. The leaves fall in the autumn, and it looks fantastic. There is a tenderness about a garden, and you can't help but be sensitive to that.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Help

• Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Faith
  • Patience
  • Miracle