Brian D. McLaren Quotes

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Brian D. McLaren

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• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Doubt

• I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Education
  • Focus

• 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

• I simply believe that people who respect their customers and have faith in their own technology products should welcome competition and that consumer choice should be a paramount value in retailing.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Believe
  • Faith

• It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Good
  • Proud

• People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Mind
  • Changes

• The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • World
  • Environmental

• It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Bad
  • Sound
  • Insult

• It’s almost the not-knowing that’s sexy. When the look is too contrived... Trying to assimilate a look to be sexy to me is pretty transparent in the first place. So... somebody who just kind of stumbles into a sexy look... who’s not been thinking about fashion at all...

  

  Marc Jacobs
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, and also where a fort might be built…. However, I do not see it to be necessary, because these people are simple in weapons…. With fifty men I could subjugate them all and make them do everything that is required of them.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • People
  • Men
  • Simple

• When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Music

• Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that's it... I can only do what I do.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • People
  • Political
  • Leaving

• My mornings start with mom coming into my bedroom and waking me up, or trying to wake me up, and then I go back to sleep. Then my mom wakes me up again and yells at me. Then she'll get me to wake up, and I'll get dressed and go to school. We go to school, and my teacher tells me that I didn't do the homework well enough. And that's that.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Up
  • Trying
  • School

• One of many strengths that I often see in successful women on Wall Street is a responsible balance between risk taking and risk mitigation - the ability to assess situations smartly and make the right medium-to-long-term decisions without being lured into reckless, short-term profit-taking.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Long
  • Women
  • Risk

• Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

  

  Anthony Storr
  • Bold

• In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • America
  • Magic
  • Goddess

• My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club. I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty since she died two months ago. My father thinks she was killed by her own thoughts.

  

  Amy Tan
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• People tend to discuss things like relationships with family and friends, and the fact that I'm the only breadwinner in the family. And honestly, I cashed in on it.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• In 2010, you have roughly 38 billion dollars spent by government on cyber and telecoms security and another 60 billion or so by private corporations. So approximately 100 billion dollars spent on security, mostly on technological solutions, which the corporates are offering governments in particular; it's a very high growth area. So everyone is climbing over each other to get the contracts for government procurement on this. There is undoubtedly an element of this and that's what encourages, in part, the whole idea of locking down the Internet.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • Internet
  • Security
  • Solutions

• Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Christian
  • Jesus
  • Killers

• The new dimensions of the message are examples of the Spirit of truth doing what Jesus promised he would do...

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Jesus
  • Message
  • Spirit of truth