Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

Charles R. Swindoll

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Good
  • Music
  • Important

• I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Important
  • American

• The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Important
  • Community
  • Will

• As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Important
  • Rest

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Music
  • Important
  • Example

• Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Live
  • High

• It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Important
  • Show

• Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Development

• How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • You

• We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Important
  • Why
  • Future

• There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Important
  • Beauty

• As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Dream

• I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Time
  • Important
  • Mind

• A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Important
  • Book
  • Changes

• Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • May

• Reuven, as you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them- 'ordinary things' is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

  

  Chaim Potok
  • World
  • Important
  • Silly

• What was said before is not important.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Important
  • Said
  • Iraq

• Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics - there's so many more around now than when I started out.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • People
  • Comedy

• You know you're grown up when summer is just a season.

  

  Michael Greger
  • Summer
  • Season
  • Known

• I've never been a fan of loans between relatives or friends. They can divide relationships.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Friends

• I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Important
  • Authenticity