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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
-
I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
-
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.
-
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.
-
You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
-
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
-
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
-
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.
-
Speed can't always get you wickets.
-
The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
-
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
-
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
-
How can you think and hit at the same time?
-
In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
-
I love cars, but I love bikes more.
-
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
-
I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.
-
The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
-
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
-
I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
-
I count Joseph Smith among those whose testimony of Christ helped me to develop my own testimony of the Savior. Before I recognized the tutoring of the Spirit testifying to me that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, my youthful heart felt that he was a friend of God and would therefore, quite naturally, also be a friend of mine.
-
Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.
-
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.
