Quotes

Story always drives the experience. Walt Disney

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” CALVIN COOLIDGE

The church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The Man In The Arena”Theodore Roosevelt’s Speech at the SorbonneParis, FranceApril 23, 1910 It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose …

Look around for “suspicious” behavior, i.e., behavior on the part of a private citizen that can be made to appear suspicious Ruthlessly probe every element of the “suspect’s” life, using the effectively infinite resources of the State, until enough “suspicious” behavior has been amassed Assemble a huge list of charges to place before a grand …

Joshua opens up our eyes to tensions we all live with, including “living with the real in light of a future ideal.” And those aren’t the same, right? Be encouraged by what God has promised you, by what he says is your inheritance, even if you can’t fully experience that inheritance yet. There is “land …

People who are simultaneously, persistently, resiliently optimistic and at the same time, absolutely, frank-honest to the core-about reality From the book Good to Great by Jim Collins

Harry Truman once commented on the importance of polls to leadership with the following insight: “I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he’d taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he’d taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a …