Kevin DeYoung Quotes

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

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• Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Life
  • Time
  • Yourself

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Look
  • Down

• I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Creative

• While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Age
  • Cancer

• It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Wife

• So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • You
  • Care

• The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • People
  • Time
  • House

• We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Boxing

• I always say I don't want to change anything in my life.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • Change
  • My Life

• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Want

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Boredom

• I started thinking about how life is a lot like getting pushed out of a plane. You didn't ask to be here, none of us did. But we're all careening through space towards an eventual end that no one's gonna be able to put off. That's the only thing that's definite, this impact. So I started to think about how a lot of us fall at an incredible velocity, and it's over in the blink of an eye.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Life
  • Think
  • Fall

• I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Our voting records are not necessarily the same, but, you know, we're all Texans, and at the end of the day, we try to help each other out.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Help

• Scores of studies support the power of certain natural foods to prevent cancer.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Power
  • Support
  • Cancer

• My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Kids