John C. Maxwell Quotes

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

John C. Maxwell

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• The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Know
  • Flowers
  • Gardening

• It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Difficult
  • Industry
  • Combination

• I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Air
  • Listen
  • Radio

• I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Wedding
  • Boat

• I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Rock
  • Now
  • Ready

• One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Country
  • American
  • Bad

• Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Live
  • Women
  • Real

• I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Never
  • Years
  • Shoes

• It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Nature
  • Journalism

• You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • You
  • See
  • Ownership

• In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • School
  • High
  • Water

• My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Photography
  • Architecture

• The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Platform

• If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Just
  • Tried
  • Singles

• The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Lost
  • Israel
  • Disappear

• If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Success
  • Wish

• I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I'm convinced that it comes from within. If you're happy and healthy, it shows.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Happy
  • Water
  • Healthy

• Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Great

• I miss football, but I'm not done. I'm not retired or anything, I just know my worth. Once it's clear that the NFL isn't considering your worth, then you get a better picture of what's really important and what you should put your energy and time into.

  

  Antonio Cromartie
  • Important
  • Football
  • Worth

• I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Darkness

• I have tried to emphasize to people that, hey, just like President Obama was a really good president, and the fact that he was black I think was historic and unprecedented, but he also claimed and owned his excellence, and that's why I'm saying, okay - I think it's really exciting and historic that I would be the first woman president, but I have a lot of work I want to do. And I hope that people will say, "Hey, she's getting it done." That's how I think about it.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Black
  • President Obama
  • Historic

• Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

  

  John C. Maxwell