Randy Alcorn Quotes

Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.

Randy Alcorn

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• Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Day

• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Guilty

• I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Heaven

• Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Business

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Experience

• When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Paradise

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Heaven
  • Thought
  • Year

• I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Day
  • Problem

• After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed, I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes?

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Think

• I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Myself

• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Hell

• I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Heaven

• I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. Having had so many outstanding legal successes, it definitely seemed to have oriented its thinking in the direction that the way to achieve was through the courts.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Achieve

• Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Work
  • Men
  • Thinking

• When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

  

  William Goldman
  • Book
  • Mean
  • Lasts

• Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Thinking
  • Heaven
  • Extrapolation