Quotes by Speakers - Page 39

Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.
Miles Anthony Smith
The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.
Miles Anthony Smith
Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.
Miles Anthony Smith
Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others.
Miles Anthony Smith
Can’t we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?
Miles Anthony Smith
When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.
Miles Anthony Smith
And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go shopping with and watch films with, the kind you go on holiday with and rescue when her car breaks down on the A1. Shortly after my diagnosis, I told her I had DID. I haven't seen her since. The stench and rankness of a socially unacceptable mental health disorder seems to have driven her away.
Carolyn Spring
If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.
Bryant McGill
True Mentors, don't make their mentees a clone of themselves
Bernard Kelvin Clive
If you choose to engage in one night stands, make sure you have a good reason and peer pressure is NOT one.
Shahla Khan
You can talk about everything, your deepest struggles and your most terrific happiness, with a #supersoulfriend. Send your #SSF a hug today!
Amy Leigh Mercree
You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself in ways that mirror the best of who we are.
Moutasem Algharati
Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.
Bryant McGill
If the most connected we’ve ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse, then we’ll seek that abuse for the rest of our lives.
Vironika Tugaleva
You have to reach out to your inner-abuser and make peace. You can't live your life as your own worst enemy!
Bryant McGill
Being overly critical of yourself is like having a relentless, inescapable bully who follows you everywhere you go and abuses you.
Bryant McGill
Ignore the voice that scorns and ridicules to ensure it does not mold you. Stifling subtleties like these, if unchecked, are oppressive. Freedom is a love supreme birthright, not a privilege to be governed by any other.
T.F. Hodge
I let go of false hope. I let go of the hope that they would transform in favour of working on my own transformation. I let go of the hope that they would HEAR me. I let go of the hope that they would SEE me. Instead of my hope being in THEM, I listened to me. I heard me, I saw me, I validated my own pain and I began to emerge from the broken life I had been living.
Darlene Ouimet
A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself.
Shahida Arabi
The fact of the matter is, if you haven’t been in an abusive relationship, you don’t really know what the experience is like. Furthermore, it’s quite hard to predict what you would do in the same situation. I find that the people most vocal about what they would’ve done in the same situation often have no clue what they are talking about – they have never been in the same situation themselves.By invalidating the survivor’s experience, these people are defending an image of themselves that they identify with strength, not realizing that abuse survivors are often the strongest individuals out there. They’ve been belittled, criticized, demeaned, devalued, and yet they’ve still survived. The judgmental ones often have little to no life experience regarding these situations, yet they feel quite comfortable silencing the voices of people who’ve actually been there.
Shahida Arabi
Dissociation leaves us disconnected from our memories, our identities and our emotions. It breaks the trauma into digestible components, so that different aspects of the trauma get stored in different compartments in our brain. What happens as a result is that the information from the trauma becomes disorganized and we are not able to integrate these pieces into a coherent narrative and process trauma fully until, hopefully, with the help of a validating, trauma-informed counselor who guides us to the appropriate therapies best suited to our needs, we confront the trauma and triggers in a safe place.
Shahida Arabi
What’s important to remember is that while human beings in general can engage in toxic behaviors from time to time, abusers use these manipulation tactics as a dominant mode of communication. Toxic people such as malignant narcissists, psychopaths and those with antisocial traits engage in maladaptive behaviors in relationships that ultimately exploit, demean, and hurt their intimate partners, family members, and friends.
Shahida Arabi
People pleasing does make it easier to ignore the red flags of abusive relationships at the very early stages especially with covert manipulators. We can also become conditioned to continually “please” if we’re used to walking on eggshells around our abuser.
Shahida Arabi
(a quote from a survivor)Read up on the psychology of abuse. Listen to music. Being alone to process without chatter. Usually outside doing something physical, doing these things helps you believe you CAN do anything. Share my story without shame.
Shahida Arabi
society has an embarrassing history of denial
Carolyn Spring
There is a slave trade still in this country—yes, the real and horrific sex and human trafficking trade run by organised criminal gangs, which is appalling and must be stopped. But there's the hidden slavery too of children exploited and used within their own families, within organised and ritual abuse.
Carolyn Spring
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious faith. But I learn it right there in the hallway: I cannot do what's been done to me.
Zak Ebrahim
God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.
Joyce Meyer
When used as a tool, fear will enhance your preparedness; when used as a guide, it will stop your progress.
Steve Maraboli
Progress is not about hating or destroying America, it is about loving and building the world, which can only come from healing our national dementia.
Bryant McGill
The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.
Bryant McGill
Serving Leaders work hard to get obstacles out of the way so others can make progress.
John Stahl-Wert
It's your duty to build your brand daily not in a day
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress.
Bryant McGill
When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart’s desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature’s gifts, to use them well.
Charles Eisenstein
The best meals are those prepared by loving hands.
Ken Poirot
Love is to give, commit, and trust completely; the courage to be vulnerable without the omniscience of another's virtue.
Ken Poirot
I believe in romance... in playfulness... in passion... in expressing feelings... in friendship... in all the ways love heals, nourishes, and transforms "you" and "me" into an "us".
Steve Maraboli
No matter how much time and space may come between us, I still feel you.
Ken Poirot
Nothing is more excruciating than hopelessly longing for lost love.
Ken Poirot
The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time.
Richard Rohr
Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.
Jeff Davidson
I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time--but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spend with my family and friends was never wasted.
Gretchen Rubin
With gospel-centered productivity, peace comes first, not second. the mistake we often make is to make peace of mind the result of things we do rather than the source.
Matt Perman
We don’t manage time, we manage activities within time
Bernard Kelvin Clive
…there is rapidly developing a soil shortage on your planet. That is, you are running out of good soil in which to grow your food. This is because soil needs time to reconstitute itself, and your corporate farmers have no time. They want land that is producing, producing, producing. So the age-old practice of alternating growing fields from season to season is being abandoned or shortened. To make up for the loss of time, chemicals are being dumped into the land in order to render it fertile faster. Yet in this, as with all things, you cannot develop an artificial substitute for Mother Nature which comes even close to providing what She provides.
Neale Donald Walsch
To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God’s purposes.
Eric Metaxas
The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if the knowledge of God were an alternative to the knowledge of woman, or to any other form of experience.
Alan W. Watts
Chubby chasers don't prove that fat is beautiful. Chubby chasers show us that ugliness is optional.
Dan Oliverio
It doesn't matter if you're 20, 40, 60, 80, or 100. Embrace your sexy-ass self and express it!
Steve Maraboli
A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.
Brennan Manning
I am positive of only a few things in life, and one is that if you want to have a decent middle and old age, you have to get exercise almost every day.
Anne Lamott
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard
I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.
Sarah Mally
If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.
Paul David Tripp
Many people will never read a Bible, but they will read you.
Ricky Maye
Money holds terrible power when it is loved
Elisabeth Elliot
Sometimes when jerks become Christians, it's like a bully learning karate. Instead of having Christ transform our hearts and attitudes, we now have a new method with which to beat you up....what was once just 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion' is now 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion in the name of God.
Jon Acuff
I have since come to understand the reality that sometimes God wants us to go through a process without ever achieving what we thought was the goal. God cares about the journey more than the end result.
Shelene Bryan
Walking through each day without a clear guide, an accurate map, and a consistent light source is hazardous to your well-being. Fortunately, God’s Word provides us with the tools and help that we need.
Stormie Omartian