Matt Redman Quotes

God first seeks devotion to Him in the hidden place–worship when no one else is watching.

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• A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Things
  • Very
  • Well

• It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Good
  • Proud

• Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I don't believe I have slept with an under-age girl. It was only recently that I found out that under-age is 18 in this country, okay, but I don't believe that I slept with anyone under 18 in this country.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Age

• Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Gift
  • Meditation
  • Unknown

• Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Different
  • Talking
  • Issues

• Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Teachers
  • Subjects
  • Grasp

• Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Children
  • Performance
  • Affect

• A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

  

  C. V. Wedgwood

• Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Time
  • Done
  • Society

• He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Body
  • Agitation
  • Crocodile

• Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Learning
  • Stress

• The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

  

  Don McLean
  • High
  • Fall
  • Musical

• Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once women made it public that they could do things better than men, they were, of course, forced to do them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Gold

• The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • World
  • May
  • Purpose

• I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Believe
  • May
  • Effort

• Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I hate crap, I like craftsmanship.

  

  Isabella Blow
  • Like
  • Crap
  • Craftsmanship

• It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Stuff
  • Consider
  • Hippies

• When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character's background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour... I do this to make my performance relatable. Directors who don't know their characters well find it difficult to answer these questions and, hence, find me annoying.

  

  Radha Ravi
  • Character
  • Performance
  • Directors

• God first seeks devotion to Him in the hidden place–worship when no one else is watching.

  

  Matt Redman
  • Firsts
  • Worship
  • Devotion