Dave Gorman Quotes

The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

Dave Gorman

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• So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Movies
  • Write
  • Big

• If you don't know what your family stands for and what your life situation is, you're in trouble.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Family
  • Situation

• I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Think
  • Single

• I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Want
  • Winter
  • Fast

• I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Look
  • More
  • Retro

• I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • American
  • Artist
  • Jazz

• Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Fishing

• There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Up

• I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • God
  • Women
  • Heart

• What defines a leader is his preoccupation with the future. In his head he carries a vivid image of what the future could be, and this image drives him on.

  

  Marcus Buckingham
  • Future

• There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

  

  Brody Jenner
  • Kids

• I can't see as well as I used to. Which is actually convenient because everything I see is in extremely soft focus! I think that's God's little gift to me.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • God
  • Focus

• Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

  

  Paulo Coelho

• In 'Bunny,' I have got my dialogues - almost 80 per cent of my shots were okayed in a single take. I did put in effort and did a lot of homework.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Single
  • Effort

• To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we choose to spend it can make a significant difference on the impact we have in our careers or in the world.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • World
  • Differences
  • Careers

• 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 kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Writing
  • Practice
  • Teenager

• In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been plenty of times of doubt, especially when I used to believe that trusting God's goodness meant I would not be hurt. But having been hurt quite a bit, I know God's goodness goes deeper than all pleasure and pain it embraces them both."

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Faith
  • Pain
  • Goodness

• The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

  

  Dave Gorman
  • Pain
  • Stronger
  • Offending