Quotes by Speakers - Page 35

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).
Guy Kawasaki
Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.
Guy Kawasaki
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.
Guy Kawasaki
I started reading my manuscripts out loud, to hear what they sounded like. If the text flows with little effort, then I am satisfied, but if I keep stumbling and stuttering while I read, then I rewrite.
Gudjon Bergmann
It is imperative that your work habits from school do not make their way into your book writing process. I am talking about the practice of typing the last words just before the deadline every time you would hand in an assignment, a paper, or even a thesis. Your book needs time to mature, and you must allow yourself the luxury of rewriting and editing until you are satisfied.
Gudjon Bergmann
Stay within the confines of your chosen topic. If you start to stray away from your topic and find an urge to showcase everything that you know, resist that urge. Remember that you are writing a book, not the book.
Gudjon Bergmann
Develop the skill of writing to avoid errors but if you do make them, don’t be demotivated
Bernard Kelvin Clive
The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.
Bryant McGill
Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives.
Eric Samuel Timm
A number of small decisions, each appearing insignificant in the moment and made in isolation of one another, can result in a negative outcome.
Vince Molinaro
Only when you decide to truly live can you be free of your fears, and only when you are free of your fears can you truly live.
Bryant McGill
Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.
Lysa TerKeurst
Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.
Steve Goodier
Make more decisions everyday. Because a decision is a summoning of life. That's why a little chaos is good for you, because often you don't make a decision until you get yourself in a jam. And then, in the middle of the jam, you make a decision, but that decision summons Life Force. Have you ever been a place where you couldn't quite make up your mind and you just felt sort of limp? "Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know." And then you decided, and you felt alive again. We want you to know that you'll never get it done. so don't approach this from, "I gotta get on this" because you're not ever going to get it done, anyway. And the other thing we want you to know is, you cannot get it wrong. So, make a decision. Let it flow.
Abraham-Hicks
A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision.
Nido Qubein
This is the time to rise up and design(customize) your life.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
When possible, the brain makes a behavior into a habit, which saves effort and therefore gives us more capacity to deal with complex, novel, or urgent matters.
Gretchen Rubin
In every life story, including our own, decisions are made in haste that determine the course of eternity.
Liz Curtis Higgs
I need not present my actions, my words, myself for somebody else's approval. And basing my decisions on somebody else's approval or making my own approval contingent on somebody else's only postpones what I really want.
Jan Denise
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Tim Sanders
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Tim Sanders
Listen. In every office you hear the threads of love and joy and fear and guilt, the cries for celebration and reassurance, and somehow you know that connecting those threads is what you are supposed to do and business takes care of itself.
Susan Scott
The great differentiator going forward, the next frontier for exponential growth, the place where individuals and organizations will find a new and sustainable competitive edge, resides in the area of human connectivity.
Susan Scott
Men as a class appear to be "at risk," maybe even at high risk.
Richard Rohr
THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.
Richard Rohr
There’s a lot of dirty theology out there, the religious counterpart to dirty politics and dirty business, I suppose. You might call it spiritual pornography—a kind of for-profit exploitative nakedness. It’s found in many of the same places as physical pornography (the Internet and cable TV for starters), and it promises similar things: instant intimacy, fantasy and make-believe, private voyeurism and vicarious experience, communion without commitment. That’s certainly not what we’re after in these pages. No, we’re after a lost treasure as old as the story of the Garden of Eden: the...
Brian D. McLaren
If you are prepared,” he told his players, “you will be confident, and will do the job.
Tim Sanders
John Andrew Holmes, “No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.
Tim Sanders
Doing, in a life of balance, should be driven from who you have decided to be.
Patrick Rhone
This is a book about getting naked—not physically, but spiritually. It’s about stripping away the symbols and status of public religion—the Sunday-dress version people often call “organized religion.” And it’s about attending to the well-being of the soul clothed only in naked human skin.
Brian D. McLaren
Decide, first, to simply be.
Patrick Rhone
You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with the faith you inherited from your parents or constructed earlier in your life. As you sort through your dogma and doctrine, you’ve found yourself praying less, less thrilled about worship, scripture, or church attendance. You’ve been so focused on sorting and purging your theological theories that you’ve lost track of the spiritual practices that sustain an actual relationship with God. You may even wonder if such a thing is possible for someone like you.
Brian D. McLaren
Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent
Susan Scott
In the previous few minutes, I had seen the most beautiful thing that eyes can see: the glory of God shining in the radiance of creation. I had heard the most beautiful thing that ears can hear: friends telling friends that they love one another. And I had felt the most beautiful thing that any heart can ever feel: the love of God and the love of others.
Brian D. McLaren
If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
Richard Rohr
Has a sense of humor. (Preferably warped.) We know who we are
Susan Scott
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.
Brian D. McLaren
What are you not doing today that you were doing when I first met you?
Tim Sanders
The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.
Richard Rohr
I think the more we fill our lives with more and more things we have to do, the less and less time we are spending on who we have to be.
Patrick Rhone
Happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment, joy, love... All these things work the same way. The more you search for them, the less likely you are to find them.
Patrick Rhone
The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.
Paul Sloane
The clear purpose of the leader is to give a clear purpose to the team.
Paul Sloane
True love is giving, not getting. Someone has said, "Love can always wait to give, but lust can never wait to get.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The path between faith and understanding demands both obedience and inquiry. If Christianity is true, if it goes to the center of the universe and explains every stone and leaf the way we Christians think, then the more we search it out and explore it the more reasons we will have to be confident in that truth.
Matthew Lee Anderson
Remind yourself daily to spend more time being interested then interesting.
Jason Jennings
The nature of the mind is to acquire, to absorb, is it not? Or rather the pattern it has created for itself is one of gathering in, and in that very activity the mind is preparing its own weariness, boredom. Interst, curiosity, is the beginning of acquisition, wich soon becomes boredom; and the urge to be free from boredom is another form of possession. So the mind goes from boredom to interest to boredom again, til it is utterly weary; and these successive waves of interest and weariness are regarded as existence."Commentaries on Living, Series II
Jiddhu Krishnamurti
I told her, "Bring your scriptures, Preach My Gospel, and every question you have. Questions are good. Let's see what the Lord will teach us together."...During one of our study sessions together, as she threw a steady stream of questions at me, I asked her if she was asking questions against a backdrop of faith or one of doubt. "In other words, are you saying, 'Here's something I don't understand, so the gospel must not be true.' or are you willing to say, 'Here's something I don't understand, but I wonder what the Lord or His prophets will teach us about this?'Are your questions asked with the assumption that there are answers? Are you will to trust the Lord and give Him the benefit of the doubt?
Sheri Dew
What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn't happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.
Guy Finley
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
Alan W. Watts
Sin is the monster we love to deny. It can stalk us, bite a slice out of our lives, return again and again, and even as we bleed and hobble, we prefer to believe nothing has happened. In Jesus Christ we are forgiven and empowered to overcome sin...but toying with an animal that is actually toying with us is a sure way to lose part of ourselves.
Frank E. Peretti
Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?
Bryant McGill
You are a human being, not a human body.
Kate Wicker
We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.
Mary E. DeMuth
Looking for someone to value what you have, will keep you coming up empty.
E'yen A. Gardner
You are worthless to others if you don't know your own self and self-worth.
Bryant McGill
Your feelings are the utmost priority, your desires are more important than anyone else's deadline or mandate.
Regena Thomashauer
Understanding your importance does not minimize those around you, it brings fulfillment to everyone.
E'yen A. Gardner
You can always hold out for something better when you know your self worth.
Bryant McGill
You don’t have to spend a lot of money to feel like a million. A good night’s sleep, a quiet walk by the river or a hug from a favorite person will do the trick.
Gina Greenlee