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“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis

“[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist’s shop.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously – no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”
― C.S. Lewis

“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened. ”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”
― C.S. Lewis

CS Lewis Quote on True Humility Thinking of Yourself Less“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― C.S. Lewis

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” C.S. Lewis
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“[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become – because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”
― C.S. Lewis

“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can’t see it. So quietly submit to be painted—i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone. You are in the right way. Walk—don’t keep on looking at it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis

“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

CS Lewis Quote from Letters to Malcom on Prayer- Rely on God“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is… A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Now we cannot…discover our failure to keep God’s law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, “You must do this. I can’t.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into… It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.”
― C.S. Lewis

“For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man’s actions but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say, hate the sin but not the sinner. …I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life — namely myself. However much I might dislike my own cowardice or conceit or greed, I went on loving myself. There had never been the slightest difficulty about it. In fact the very reason why I hated the things was that I loved the man. Just because I loved myself, I was sorry to find that I was the sort of man who did those things.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Die before you die, there is no chance after.”
― C.S. Lewis

“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all. ”
― C.S. Lewis

“Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth ‘thrown in’: aim at Earth and you will get neither.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Joyful Christian

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,…Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

C.S. Lewis the Apologist: Quotes about Apologetics and Atheism
“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…”
― C.S. Lewis

“When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys’ philosophies–these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
― C.S. Lewis

“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”
― C.S. Lewis

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“It was when I was happiest that I longed most…The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing…to find the place where all the beauty came from.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

C.S. Lewis Quotes on Love and Friendship
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
― C.S. Lewis

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
― C.S. Lewis

“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”
― C.S. Lewis

.”..Friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

C.S. Lewis Quotes on Pain and Suffering
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis

Best-CS-Lewis-Quotes-God-Whispers-Shouts-in-Pain-and-Suffering “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
― C.S. Lewis

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”
― C.S. Lewis

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I once read the sentence ‘I lay awake all night with a toothache, thinking about the toothache and about lying awake.’ That’s true to life. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

C.S. Lewis Quotes about Education
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
― C.S. Lewis

“God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.”
― C.S. Lewis

Random Quotes from the Famous C.S. Lewis
“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career. ”
― C.S. Lewis

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Quotes from the Chronicles of Narnia
“It isn’t Narnia, you know,” sobbed Lucy. “It’s you. We shan’t meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?”
“But you shall meet me, dear one,” said Aslan.
“Are -are you there too, Sir?” said Edmund.
“I am,” said Aslan. “But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,” said the Lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,” said Aslan. “And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“But, first, remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the morning and when you lie down at night, and when you wake in the middle of the night. And whatever strange things may happen to you, let nothing turn your mind from following the signs. And secondly, I give you a warning. Here on the mountain I have spoken to you clearly: I will not often do so down in Narnia. Here on the mountain, the air is clear and your mind is clear; as you drop down into Narnia, the air will thicken. Take great care that it does not confuse your mind. And the signs which you have learned here will not look at all as you expect them to look, when you meet them there. That is why it is so important to know them by heart and pay no attention to appearances. Remember the signs and believe the signs. Nothing else matters.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

“Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Do not dare not to dare.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“He’ll be coming and going” he had said. “One day you’ll see him and another you won’t. He doesn’t like being tied down–and of course he has other countries to attend to. It’s quite all right. He’ll often drop in. Only you mustn’t press him. He’s wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
― A.W. Tozer

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
― A.W. Tozer

“God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.”
― A.W. Tozer

“I want the presence of God Himself, or I don’t want anything at all to do with religion… I want all that God has or I don’t want any.”
― A.W. Tozer

“The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.”
― A.W. Tozer

“God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell.”
― A.W. Tozer

“God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do”
― A.W. Tozer

“Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.”
― A.W. Tozer

“True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.”
― A.W. Tozer

“When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.”
― A.W. Tozer

“We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Rules for Self Discovery:
1. What we want most;
2. What we think about most;
3. How we use our money;
4. What we do with our leisure time;
5. The company we enjoy;
6. Who and what we admire;
7. What we laugh at.”
― A.W. Tozer

“But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.”
― A.W. Tozer

“We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day― but remember at the time they didn’t know they were heroes.”
― A.W. Tozer

“A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man’s greatest tragedy and God’s heaviest grief.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.”
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“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”
― A.W. Tozer

“We believe that ideas only become great when they are challenged and tested.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Lack of candor, if unchecked, ultimately leads to dysfunctional environments.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Seek out people who are willing to level with you, and when you find them, hold them close.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“To be wrong as fast as you can is to sign up for aggressive, rapid learning.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“For leaders especially, this strategy—trying to avoid failure by out-thinking it—dooms you to fail.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“To be a truly creative company, you must start things that might fail.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“There are two parts to any failure: there is the event itself, with all its attendant disappointment, confusion, and shame, and then there is our reaction to it. It is this second part that we control.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“A manager’s default mode should not be secrecy.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Your employees are smart; that’s why you hired them. So treat them that way.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Rather than trying to prevent all errors, we should assume, as is almost always the case, that our people’s intentions are good and that they want to solve problems.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Our job is to protect our [new ideas] from being judged too quickly. Our job is to protect the new.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Part of our job is to protect the new from people who don’t understand that, in order for greatness to emerge, there must be phases of not-so-greatness.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Making something great is the goal.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“The system is tilted to favor the incumbent. The challenger needs support to find its footing. And protection of the new—of the future, not the past— must be a conscious effort.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“It’s folly to think you can avoid change, no matter how much you might want to. But also, to my mind, you shouldn’t want to. There is no growth or success without change.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Randomness is not just inevitable; it is part of the beauty of life. Acknowledging it and appreciating it helps us respond constructively when we are surprised.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“If we make room for it instead of shunning it, the unknown can bring inspiration and originality.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“We must meet unexpected problems with unexpected responses.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Change is inevitable…Working with change is what creativity is about.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“If you don’t try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Acknowledging what you can’t see…helps promote flexibility.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“The most creative people are willing to work in the shadow of uncertainty.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.
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“I believe that we all have the potential to solve problems and express ourselves creatively. What stands in our way are these hidden barriers—the misconceptions and assumptions that impede us without our knowing it.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.
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“I believe that you should not be required to justify everything. We must always leave the door open for the unexpected.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“The attempt to avoid failure makes failure more likely.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Driving the train doesn’t set its course. The real job is laying the track.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“In my experience, creative people discover and realize their visions over time and through dedicated, protracted struggle.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Earning trust takes time; there’s no shortcut to understanding that we really do rise and fall together.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Easy isn’t the goal. Quality is the goal.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“What is the point of hiring smart people if you don’t empower them to fix what’s broken?” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“There’s nothing like a crisis to bring what ails a company to the surface.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Managers of creative companies must never forget to ask themselves: ‘how do we tap the brainpower of our people?'” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“It is precisely by acting on our intentions and staying true to our values that we change the world.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Real improvement comes from consistent rigor and participation.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“It is management’s job to figure out how to help others see conflict as healthy—as a route to balance, which benefits us all in the long run.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“A better measure of our success is to look at the people on our team and see how they are working together. Can they rally to solve key problems? If the answer is yes, you are managing well.” 
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc

“A manager’s default mode should not be secrecy.”
— Ed Catmull

“Always take a chance on better, even if it seems threatening.”
— Ed Catmull

“Art isn’t about drawing; it’s about learning to see. What organization doesn’t need this ability?”
— Ed Catmull

“Be patient. Be authentic. And be consistent. The trust will come.”
— Ed Catmull

“Craft is what we are expected to know; art is the unexpected use of our craft.”
— Ed Catmull

“Don’t wait for things to be perfect before you share them with others. Show early and show often. It’ll be pretty when we get there, but it won’t be pretty along the way.”
— Ed Catmull

“Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.”
— Ed Catmull

“Failure isn’t a necessary evil. In fact, it isn’t evil at all. It is a necessary consequence of doing something new.”
— Ed Catmull

“Failure was being used as a weapon, rather than as an agent of learning.”
— Ed Catmull

“Fear can be created quickly; trust can’t.”
— Ed Catmull

“For leaders especially, this strategy – trying to avoid failure be out thinking it dooms you to fail.”
— Ed Catmull

“For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That’s the broad definition of it.”
— Ed Catmull

“Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than getting the right idea.”
— Ed Catmull

“I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention.”
— Ed Catmull

“I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.”
— Ed Catmull

“If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.”
— Ed Catmull

“If you aren’t experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.”
— Ed Catmull

“If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they’ll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they’ll fix it. Or they’ll throw it away and come up with something else.”
— Ed Catmull

“It’s pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure’s a good thing. Intellectually, it’s an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.”
— Ed Catmull

“Making something great is the goal.”
— Ed Catmull

“Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new.”
— Ed Catmull

“Our job is to protect our new ideas from being judges too quickly. Our job is to protect the new.”
— Ed Catmull

“Rather than trying to prevent all errors, we should assume, as is almost always the case, that our people’s intentions are good and that they want to solve problems.”
— Ed Catmull

“Seek out people who are willing to level with you, and when you find them, hold them close.”
— Ed Catmull

“There are two parts of any failure: There is the event itself, with all its attendant disappointment, confusion, and shame, and then there is our reaction to it. It is the second part that we control.”
— Ed Catmull

“There is nothing quite like ignorance combined with a driving need to succeed to force rapid learning.”
— Ed Catmull

“This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.”
— Ed Catmull

“To be a truly creative company, you must start things that might fail.”
— Ed Catmull

“To be wrong as fast as you can is to sign up for aggressive rapid learning.”
— Ed Catmull

“We believe that ideas only become great when they are challenged and tested.”
— Ed Catmull

“We must remember that failure gives us chances to grow, and we ignore those chances at our own peril.”
— Ed Catmull

“We realized that our purpose was not merely to build a studio that made hit films but to foster a creative culture that would continually ask questions.”
— Ed Catmull

“We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them.”
— Ed Catmull

“We want people to feel like they can take steps to solve problems without asking permission.”
— Ed Catmull

“What is the point of hiring smart people, we asked, if you don’t empower them to fix what’s broken?”
— Ed Catmull

“When faced with a challenge, get smarter.”
— Ed Catmull

“When it comes to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.”
— Ed Catmull

“You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.”
— Ed Catmull

“You don’t have to ask permission to take responsibility.”
— Ed Catmull

“You’ll never stumble upon the unexpected if you stick only to the familiar.”
— Ed Catmull

“Your employees are smart; that’s why you hired them. So treat them that way.”
— Ed Catmull

“Nonsense remains nonsense, even when talked by world-famous scientists.” 
― John C. Lennox

“It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone who always gets it right.” 
― John C. Lennox

“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.” 
― John C. Lennox, God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

“Indeed, faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.” 
― John C. Lennox, God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

“Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.” 
― John C. Lennox

“God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the gaps, he is the ground of all explanation: it is his existence which gives rise to the very possibility of explanation, scientific or otherwise. It is important to stress this because influential authors such as Richard Dawkins will insist on conceiving of God as an explanatory alternative to science – an idea that is nowhere to be found in theological reflection of any depth. Dawkins is therefore tilting at a windmill - dismissing a concept of God that no serious thinker believes in anyway. Such activity is not necessarily to be regarded as a mark of intellectual sophistication.” 
― John C. Lennox, God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

“We can therefore express the major elements in the New Atheists’ agenda as follows: Religion is a dangerous delusion: it leads to violence and war. We must therefore get rid of religion: science will achieve that. We do not need God to be good: atheism can provide a perfectly adequate base for ethics.” 
― John C. Lennox, Gunning for God

“It would be a pity if, in a desire (rightly) to treat the Bible as more than a book, we ended up treating it as less than a book by not permitting it the range and use of language, order, and figures of speech that are (or ought to be) familiar to us from our ordinary experience of conversation and reading.” 
― John C. Lennox, Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science

“this world is not going to be trampled and smashed by brutal, amoral regimes for ever. A day will come when God will bring to an end the state war-machines, the terrorist bombs, the consummate evil of totalitarian oppression, the gas chambers, death camps, killing fields, and countless other infamous instruments of death. There will be a judgment.” 
― John C. Lennox, Against the Flow: The inspiration of Daniel in an age of relativism

“Evren, serinkanlılığımızı koruyamayacağımız kadar büyüleyici.” 
― John C. Lennox, God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

“Society tolerates the practice of the Christian faith in private devotions and in church services, but it increasingly deprecates public witness.” 
― John C. Lennox, Against the Flow: The inspiration of Daniel in an age of relativism

“To the majority of those who have reflected deeply and written about the origin and nature of the universe, it has seemed that it points beyond itself to a source which is non-physical and of great intelligence and power.” 
― John C. Lennox, God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

“Whether you believe in Jesus, Buddha, the Beatles, crystals, mother earth, or anything else that takes your interest, all are held to be on the same footing; all have equal validity for the relativist.” 
― John C. Lennox, Against the Flow: The inspiration of Daniel in an age of relativism

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love

“We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Has Christianity Failed You?

“What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I remained with Him because there is no other way I wish to turn. I came to Him longing for something I did not have. I remain with Him because I have something I will not trade. I came to Him as a stranger. I remain with Him in the most intimate of friendships. I came to Him unsure about the future. I remain with Him certain about my destiny. I came amid the thunderous cries of a culture that has 330 million deities. I remain with Him knowing that truth cannot be all-inclusive.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

“Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love

“I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question.
Tell me," I said.
You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.”
― Ravi Zacharias

“These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too.” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate...” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God

“Truth by definition excludes.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That sublime description could be reworked to explain each one of these miracles. Was it any different in principle for a broken body to mend at the command of its Maker? Was it far-fetched for the Creator of the universe, who fashioned matter out of nothing, to multiply bread for the crowd? Was it not within the power of the One who called all the molecules into existence to interlock them that they might bear His footsteps?” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth, there is no legitimacy to monotony unless we assume a greater purpose to life, there is no purpose to life unless we assume design, death has no significance unless we seek what is everlasting.” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God

“The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, The Real Face of Atheism

“But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water. She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“We are living in a time when sensitivities are at the surface, often vented with cutting words. Philosophically, you can believe anything so as you do not claim it a better way. Religiously, you can hold to anything, so long as you do not bring Jesus Christ into it. If a spiritual idea is eastern, it is granted critical immunity; if western, it is thoroughly criticized. Thus, a journalist can walk into a church and mock its carryings on, but he or she dare not do the same if the ceremony is from eastern fold. Such is the mood at the end of the twentieth century. A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling. But that is precisely what I believe postmodernism best represents - a mood.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

“We are his temple. We do not turn in a certain directlon to pray. We are not bound by having to go into a building so that we can commune with God. There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed, and wealth.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God

“Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and gratitude. Sovereignty is only tyrannical if it is unbounded by goodness; holiness is only terrifying if it is untempered by grace; omniscience is only taunting if it is unaccompanied by mercy; and immutability is only torturous if there is no guarantee of goodwill.” 
― Ravi Zacharias

“For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God

“If God is the author of life, there must be a script.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“A friend asked the author,"If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know?” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend

“I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come form being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God

“There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed and wealth.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God

“God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Has Christianity Failed You?

“Of all the religions in the world, there is none with the wealth of music that the Christian faith offers.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

“All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“God the Grand Weaver seeks those with tender hearts so that he can put his imprint on them. Your hurts and your disappointments are part of that design, to shape your heart and the way you feel about reality. The hurts you live through will always shape you. There is no other way.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

“All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Dragoste gratuită nu există; dragostea este expresia cea mai costisitoare din lume. Dar lucrul minunat este că prețul ei a fost plătit deja.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

“His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“That truth, by the way, is why even the horror of hell is more the outcome of a heart that seeks to disown God and play God and live eternally with those who do the same than it is retribution against evil. C. S. Lewis once wrote that “there are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’”46” 
― Ravi Zacharias, The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists

“how much more grand is the work of our Heavenly Father as he pulls together all the varied strands of life to reveal his grand design?” 
― Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

“But the greatest dream of all is to know God and to know what he has intended for your life.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

“In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Only if you are willing to pray sincerely for God’s will to be done and are willing to live the life apportioned to you will you see the breathtaking view of God that he wants you to have, through the windows he has placed in your life. You cannot always live on the mountaintop, but when you walk through the valley, the memory of the view from the mountain will sustain you and give you the strength to carry you through.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

“The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it’s wise to ask why it was put there in the first place.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Sense and Sensuality: Jesus Talks to Oscar Wilde on the Pursuit of Pleasure

“if there is any part of our lives that we haven’t turned over to Christ, the devil reminds him, ‘No, that one isn’t totally yours. I still have this patch of ground here.’ “Jesus is totally committed to us. And until we learn to be totally surrendered to him, we’ll never find the joy of what it means to fully belong to him. That is the key to every believer’s life — full ownership by Christ. Everything we are and want to be belong to him. “The Lord wants to have ownership of your life. If there is anything hindering this from happening, I invite you to come forward now and lay it before Christ.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

“Often we are not aware of how close we are to that which we need but we think we do not have. In His grace, God has placed some hidden gold somewhere in all of us that meets our need at a desperate moment.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

“Sometimes in the shadows of one’s self lie the problems, and in the shadows of one’s shaping lie the answers.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

“God doesn’t respond because someone opens up some new insight for Him. No. In persistent, fervent prayer, God prepares the soil of one’s heart to make room for the seed of His answer, from which will flower an alignment with His will.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, The Lotus and the Cross: Jesus Talks with Buddha

“So where does one begin? With self-crucifixion. In effect, we go to our own funeral and bury the self-will so that God’s will can reign supremely in our hearts. Our will has no power to do God’s will until it first dies to its own desires and the Holy Spirit brings a fresh power within.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

“Philosophically, you can believe anything, so long as you do not claim it to be true. Morally, you can practice anything, so long as you do not claim that it is a “better” way. Religiously, you can hold to anything, so long as you do not bring Jesus Christ into it. If a spiritual idea is eastern, it is granted critical immunity; if western, it is thoroughly criticized. Thus, a journalist can walk into a church and mock its carryings on, but he or she dare not do the same if the ceremony is from the eastern fold. Such is the mood at the end of the twentieth century.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Starting at life's cryptogram, we either see His name unmistakably resplendent or we see the confusion of religions with no single message, just garbled beliefs that plague our existence, each justified by the voice of culture.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“The person who demands a sign and at the same time has already determined that anything that cannot be explained scientifically is meaningless is not merely stacking the deck; he is losing at his own game.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Every religion at its core is exclusive.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Knowledge and education in the hands of one who claims no higher accountability or authority than one’s own individuality is power in the hands of a fool.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, The Real Face of Atheism

“But you know, General, Jesus never came to establish a government upon the people by force. He did not even talk about political systems. He came to rule in the hearts of people, and not by the establishment of political power. He asks to live in you, not to control your state.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“if it is true that heredity plays a role in the spiritual dispositions that are imprinted on our souls, Jesus’ declaration that each of us needs to be born again is even more profound. The DNA of generations past marks itself very deeply in us, and it takes a new birth for us to be able to see through new eyes.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

“Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a man, so why can't we see his real message?” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Deliver Us from Evil

“The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Sacrilege is often defined as taking something that belongs to God and using it profanely. But there is a bigger sacrilege we commit all the time. That is to take something and give it to God when it means absolutely nothing to us.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

“The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. Herein lies the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus’ offer to us. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

“Worship very plainly opens up the healing of all of mankind. The struggle of gender, the struggle of race, the struggle of history, the struggle to find political liberation, the struggle of our own contradictions — nothing can be mended until we understand the symbol of Jesus’ breaking of the bread and pouring of the wine.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

“The important thing to bear in mind is that you must face your willingness to die to yourself before you choose to walk down the aisle. Is this person the one for whom you are willing to die daily? Is this person to whom you say, “I do” also the one for whom you are willing to say, “No, I don’t” to everybody else? Be assured that marriage will cost you everything.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love

“So do not fear the struggle; rather, embrace it. Embrace it in the knowledge that the Grand Weaver will take all of your struggles, questions, disappointments, and fears and use them to build your faith and increasingly make you into a man or woman who looks like Jesus Christ.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

“The world was made for the body. The body was made for the soul. And the soul was made for God.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Why Jesus?: Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality

“Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions, while never surrendering reason.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

“More and more, when something terrible happens, we declare, “That’s life!” — as though disappointment and heartache declare the sum total of this existence. We miss the roses and see only the thorns. We take for granted the warmth of the sun and get depressed by the frequency of the rain or the snow. We ignore the sounds of life in a nursery because we are preoccupied with the sounds of sirens responding to an emergency. We forget the marvel of a marriage that has endured the test of time because we feel discouraged by the heartaches of loved ones whose marriages didn’t make it to the end.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

“Chesterton says, in essence, that there is a dislocation of humility in our times. We have become more confident in who we are and less in what we believe. Our pride has moved us from the organ of conviction to the organ of ambition, when it is intended to be the other way around. In short, our confidence should be in our message and not in ourselves.” 
― Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

“When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you’ve had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.” 
― James C. Collins, How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In

“Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.” 
― James C. Collins

“A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the wrong people. Worse, it can drive away the best people. Strong performers are intrinsically motivated by performance, and when they see their efforts impeded by carrying extra weight, they eventually become frustrated.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.” 
― James C. Collins

“I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.”
― James C. Collins

“Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?"

Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.” 
― James C. Collins

“What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.” 
― James C. Collins

“Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.” 
― James C. Collins

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“The good-to-great leaders never wanted to become larger-than-life heroes. They never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons. They were seemingly ordinary people quietly producing extraordinary results.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” 
― James C. Collins, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

“Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

“Indeed, the real question is not, “Why greatness?” but “What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?” If you have to ask the question, “Why should we try to make it great? Isn’t success enough?” then you’re probably engaged in the wrong line of work.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in retrospect like brilliant foresight and preplanning was often the result of “Let’s just try a lot of stuff and keep what works.” 
― James C. Collins, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

“Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?” —Marshall Bruce Mathers III, “Lose Yourself”1” 
― James C. Collins, Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

“Freedom is only part of the story and half the truth.... That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplanted by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast. —VIKTOR E. FRANKL, Man’s Search for Meaning” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“Visionary companies pursue a cluster of objectives, of which making money is only one—and not necessarily the primary one.” 
― James C. Collins, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

“Visionary companies are so clear about what they stand for and what they’re trying to achieve that they simply don’t have room for those unwilling or unable to fit their exacting standards.” 
― James C. Collins, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

“Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate life, then perhaps in making your church great. If not there, then perhaps a nonprofit, or a community organization, or a class you teach. Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.” 
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.” 
— HARRY S. TRUMAN

“Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.” 
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.” 
― Lee Strobel, The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ

“If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.” 
― Lee Strobel

“To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.” 
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“If I had stopped asking questions, that’s where I would have remained.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

“I don’t know what the future holds, but I do know who holds my future.” 
― Lee Strobel, Light the Way Home: My Incredible Ride from New Age to New Life

“The Jews proposed the ridiculous story that the guards had fallen asleep. Obviously, they were grasping at straws. But the point is this: they started with the assumption that the tomb was vacant! Why? Because they knew it was!” 
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Christ

“God didn’t let Job suffer because he lacked love, but because he did love, in order to bring Job to the point of encountering God face to face, which is humanity’s supreme happiness. Job’s suffering hollowed out a big space in him so that God and joy could fill it.” 
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“Craig summarized his next point succinctly at the outset: “A third factor pointing toward God is the existence of objective moral values in the universe. If God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exist.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“the scientific data point powerfully toward the existence of a Creator and that the historical evidence for the resurrection establishes convincingly that Jesus is divine.” 
― Lee Strobel, Finding the Real Jesus: A Guide for Curious Christians and Skeptical Seekers

“Paul himself says that he was converted to a follower of Jesus because he had personally encountered the resurrected Jesus.12 So we have Jesus’ resurrection attested by friend and foe alike, which is very significant.” 
― Lee Strobel, Finding the Real Jesus: A Guide for Curious Christians and Skeptical Seekers

“It’s becoming clearer and clearer to me that this is materialistic philosophy masquerading as empirical science. The attitude is that life had to have developed this way because there’s no other materialistic explanation.” 
― Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

“He hadn’t changed since I had seen him a few years earlier. With his close-cropped black beard, angular features, and riveting gaze, Craig still looks the role of a serious scholar. He speaks in cogent sentences, never losing his train of thought, always working through an answer methodically, point by point, fact by fact.” 
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Christ

“If it's true there's a beginning to the universe, as modern cosmologists now agree, then this implies a cause that transcends the universe. If the laws of physics are fine-tuned to permit life, as contemporary physicists are discovering, then perhaps there's a designer who fine-tuned them. If there's information in the cell, as molecular biology shows, then this suggests intelligent design. To get life going in the first place would have required biological information; the implications point beyond the material realm to a prior intelligent cause. -Stephen C Meyer, PHD” 
― Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

“Mother Teresa used the analogy of electricity: “The wire is you and me; the current is God,” she said. “We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, and produce the light of the world—Jesus.” 
― Lee Strobel, Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage

“I interrupted. “Okay, that points toward a Creator, but does it tell us much about him?” “Actually, yes, it does,” Craig replied. “We know this supernatural cause must be an uncaused, changeless, timeless, and immaterial being.” “What’s the basis of your conclusions?” “It must be uncaused because we know that there cannot be an infinite regress of causes. It must be timeless and therefore changeless, at least without the universe, because it was the creator of time. In addition, because it also created space, it must transcend space and therefore be immaterial rather than physical in nature.” 
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ” 
― Dale Carnegie

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be. ” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Our thoughts make us what we are.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“No matter what happens, always be yourself.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.” 
― Dale Carnegie
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“Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?"
Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“A man convinced against his will 
Is of the same opinion still” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt
ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never
waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry” 
― Dale Carnegie

“You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“To be interesting, be interested.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“That is the way Emerson said it. But here is the way a poet -the late Douglas Mallochsaid
it:
If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill.
Be a scrub in the valley-but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush, if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a bush, be a bit of the grass.
If you can't be a muskie, then just be a bass-
But the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew.
There's something for all of us here.
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do
And the task we must do is the near.
If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun, be a star;
It isn't by the size that you win or you fail-
Be the best of whatever you are!” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another."
Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer?
Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very
thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today” 
― Dale Carnegie

“criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Nobody kicks a dead dog” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end.
So what is there to worry about?” 

― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“The expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin completed the manuscript of his immortal book "The Origin Of Species" he realized that the publication of his revolutionary concept of creation would rock the intellectual and religious worlds. So he became his own critic and spent another 15 years checking his data, challenging his reasoning, and criticizing his conclusions.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Winning friends begins with friendliness.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?” 
― Dale Carnegie

“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and
try again in a different way.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing” 
― Dale Carnegie

“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“You can make more friends in two months by being interested in other people than in two years of trying to get people interested in you.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade
That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds
that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: "I'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't
got a chance." Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of selfpity.
But when the wise man is handed a lemon, he says: "What lesson can I learn from
this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a
lemonade?” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. “To know all is to forgive all.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“If you want to be enthusiastic,
act enthusiastic.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of
England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think
of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass...if we do not take [tasks] one at a time and let them pass...slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own...structure.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“i really like reading books” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“We are interested in others when they are interested in us.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It’s easy” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Today is the tommorrow you worried about yesterday.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Happiness does not depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude” 
― Dale Carnegie

“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Today is life - the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto” 
― Dale Carnegie

“If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” 
― Dale Carnegie, The Leader In You: How to Win Friends, Influence People and Succeed in a Changing World

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to
bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and
resignation that touched the hem of divinity.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Always avoid the acute angle.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“If your temper is aroused and you tell 'em a thing or two, you will have a fine time unloading your feelings. But what about the other fellow? Will he share your pleasure? Will your belligerent tones, your hostile attitude, make it easy for him to agree with you? "If you come at me with your fists doubled," said Wood row Wilson, "I think I can promise you that mine will double as fast as yours; but if you come to me and say, 'Let us sit down and take counsel together, and, if we differ from one another, understand why it is that we differ from one another, just what the points at issue are,' we will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.” 
― Dale Carnegie

“IN A NUTSHELL FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN HANDLING PEOPLE 
PRINCIPLE 1 Don’t criticize, condemn or complain. 
PRINCIPLE 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation. 
PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.” 
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” 
― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great” 
― Zig Ziglar

“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Make today worth remembering.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side. ” 
― Zig Ziglar

“A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could” 
― Zig Ziglar

“There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“You never know when a moment and a 
few sincere words can have an impact on a life.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Failure is an event not a person” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Some people find fault like there is a reward for it” 
― Zig Ziglar, Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Quotes

“Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there” 
― Zig Ziglar

“The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. ” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Go as far as you can see and you will see further.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“A goal properly set is halfway reached.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.” 
― Zig Ziglar, Something to Smile about: Encouragement and Inspiration for Life's Ups and Downs

“U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“It is not your aptitude but your ATTITUDE that decides your altitude in life.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours. ~” 
― Zig Ziglar, Something to Smile about: Encouragement and Inspiration for Life's Ups and Downs

“Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.” 
― Zig Ziglar, See You at the Top

“You hit what you aim at, and if you aim at nothing you will hit it every time.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning” 
― Zig Ziglar

“If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.” 
― Zig Ziglar, Success For Dummies

“If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time...
the habit takes over.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year. There´s no sign of growth. Not even a hint. The same thing happens - or doesn´t happen - the second year. And then the third year. The tree is carefully watered and fertilized each year, but nothing shows. No growth. No anything. For eight years it can continue. Eight years! Then - after the eight years of fertilizing and watering have passed, with nothing to show for it - the bamboo tree suddently sprouts and grows thirty feet in three months!” 
― Zig Ziglar

“It's your ATTITUDE not your APTITUDE that ultimately determines your ALTITUDE!” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.” 
― Zig Ziglar

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."
― Steve Jobs

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” 
― Steve Jobs

“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.” 
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.” 
― Steve Jobs

“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently. (Steve Jobs)” 
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?” 
― Steve Jobs

“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.” 
― Steve Jobs

“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.” 
― Steve Jobs

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.” 
― Steve Jobs

Peter Kreeft
“By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.” 
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

“I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)” 
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.” 
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
“Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.” 
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Jess C. Scott
“Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.” 
― Jess C. Scott, The Darker Side of Life

“Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.” 
― Walter Isaacson

Jarod Kintz
“If a company won't hire you, why don't you start your own company? Steve Jobs created jobs, he didn't apply for them. #Startup your dreams.” 
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

“Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.” 
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Jobs had begun to drop acid by then, and he turned Brennan on to it as well, in a wheat field just outside Sunnyvale. "It was great," he recalled. "I had been listening to a lot of Bach. All of a sudden the whole field was playing Bach. It was the most wonderful feeling of my life up to that point. I felt like the conductor of this symphony with Bach coming through the wheat.” 
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“In a bravura demonstration of stonewalling, righteousness, and hurt sincerity, Steve Jobs successfully took to the stage the other day to deny the problem, dismiss the criticism, and spread the blame among other smartphone makers,” Michael Wolff of newser.com wrote. “This is a level of modern marketing, corporate spin, and crisis management about which you can only ask with stupefied incredulity and awe: How do they get away with it? Or, more accurately, how does he get away with it?” Wolff attributed it to Jobs’s mesmerizing effect as “the last charismatic individual.” Other CEOs would be offering abject apologies and swallowing massive recalls, but Jobs didn’t have to. “The grim, skeletal appearance, the absolutism, the ecclesiastical bearing, the sense of his relationship with the sacred, really works, and, in this instance, allows him the privilege of magisterially deciding what is meaningful and what is trivial.” 
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“In two days he saw Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and the management of their Wall Street Journal; Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and the top executives at the New York Times; and executives at Time, Fortune, and other Time Inc. magazines. “I would love to help quality journalism,” he later said. “We can’t depend on bloggers for our news.” 
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.” 
― Walter Isaacson

“One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like products. While every Macintosh model has had flaws (some more than others), most of them have has a sexiness and a design sensibility that has turned many consumers into instant converts. Macintosh owners upgrade far more often than most computer users for precisely this reason.” (p.98)” 
― Seth Godin, Unleashing the Ideavirus: Stop Marketing AT People! Turn Your Ideas into Epidemics by Helping Your Customers Do the Marketing thing for You.

Mona Simpson
“He was a man too busy to flush toilets.” 
― Mona Simpson, A Regular Guy

“Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible.” 
― Walter Isaacson

“Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at the Whole Foods store in Palo Alto a few blocks from Jobs' home: 'I was shagging carts one afternoon when I saw this silver Mercedes parked in a handicapped spot. Steve Jobs was inside screaming at his car phone. This was right before the first iMac was unveiled and I'm pretty sure I could make out, 'Not. Fucking. Blue. Enough!!!” 
― Walter Isaacson

“We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.” 
- Jim Collins

“Don’t hire people to fill a position, select people to fulfill a dream and to serve a purpose.”
- Horst Schulze

“If there’s laughter in the room, people will solve whatever problem is there, no matter how hard it is.”
- Ed Catmull

“Find small ways to add great value to others.”
- Adam Grant

“Don’t go to work to work, go to work to be excellent in your career and to care about the people around you.”
- Horst Schulze

“When you lack resources is when you get resourceful.” 
- Liz Wiseman

“The fastest way to change the feedback culture in an organization is for the leaders to become better receivers.” 
- Sheila Heen

“Learning to receive feedback from each other is what leadership is all about.” 
- Sheila Heen

“If your character is not strengthening, your future potential is weakening.” 
- Craig Groeschel

“A secure leader know how to laugh at themselves.” 
- Michael Jr.

“Is it possible we are at our best when we know our very least – when we are rookies.” 
- Liz Wiseman

“I think organizations don’t grow because leaders believe ‘our people can’t do what we do'”. 
- Sam Adeyemi

“Vision is not the core of leadership – it is self-sacrificing love.” 
- Bill Hybels

"That's a crooked tree. We'll send him to Washington."
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“The only thing worse than yellow snow is green snow."
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

"I like to beat the brush."
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when I get home, the only thing I have power over is the garbage.”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“You need the dark in order to show the light.”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“Look around. Look at what we have. Beauty is everywhere—you only have to look to see it.”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“Just go out and talk to a tree. Make friends with it.”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“Trees cover up a multitude of sins.”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers—just to upset the critics."
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“How do you make a round circle with a square knife? That’s your challenge for the day.”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“I remember when my Dad told me as a kid, ‘If you want to catch a rabbit, stand behind a tree and make a noise like a carrot. Then when the rabbit comes by you grab him.’ Works pretty good until you try to figure out what kind of noise a carrot makes…”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

"We tell people sometimes: we're like drug dealers, come into town and get everybody absolutely addicted to painting. It doesn't take much to get you addicted."
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“Water's like me. It's laaazy ... Boy, it always looks for the easiest way to do things”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you.”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.”
—From an interview with The New York Times

“We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

“We don't make mistakes. We just have happy accidents.”
—Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"

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