Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.
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The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
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My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
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The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
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What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
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I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.
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If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules.
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A man who keeps asking you to trust him is always hiding something.
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Managers today come up against a few more communication barriers. One is the pressure of time. Listening carefully takes time, and managers have little of that to spare. In today’s business culture especially, with its emphasis on speed, already pressed managers may give short shrift to the slower art of one-on-one communication.
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Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.
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Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
