Neal A. Maxwell Quotes
I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, 'My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.' That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that.
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I believe in the simple things in life; everything derives from the beginning. You take things very simplistically and try to be the best person you can be.
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It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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I see myself as more of a student, that I love to get down into the weeds of different problems and try to go through that. I don't mind messaging, but I'm going to default back to the research side of things.
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I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, 'My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.' That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.
