I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

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Sometimes God delays His answers so that we'll learn how to wait
JENNY ROSALES-FERAER It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we be...
EUGENE H. PETERSON When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr...
KEVIN GATES It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY

We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, b...
DEBORAH TANNEN It's often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. I think, if you&#...
MORGAN WOOTTEN It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
MADISON MARLOW

Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Because of the fact that we've been through so much, we're going to appreciate every step of...
BILL RANCIC We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, wom...
KATHERINE HARRIS

What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, ...
JAMES WOLPERT If it isn't contributing to getting you where you want to be a year from today, then don't put it on...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity wo...
JOEL OSTEEN

I love Athena. I love all the goddesses and the archetypes and what they represent because I think t...
ISABEL LUCAS

Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be conta...
EVANGELINE LILLY

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, becaus...
COLIN POWELL

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN People know your tragedies and they treat you like
you’re not human. Like you’re a three-h...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks m...
JAMES GLEICK The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really l...
WILLIAM MOSELEY Women are such incredible people. We're so multifaceted, we're so interesting, and any oppor...
JILLIAN HERVEY I think it helps focus students on being accountable for what they have to learn. It also focuses ac...
JUDY JEFFREY Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.
CRAIG GROESCHEL There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so m...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER When someone says we need to talk, what he or she usually means is you will listen. An...
JAMES ANDERSON I'm not being cynical, but I have to find work that is allowing me to pay bills and keep our liv...
THANDIE NEWTON God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I...
JOHN BYTHEWAY I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write tow...
DUSTIN DIAMOND People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hi...
JANE FONDA We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.
LOUIS C. K. Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko,
Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy.....
.....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai,
K...
VISHAL BHARADWAJ - HAIDER FILM You can never sanctify to God that with which you long to satisfy yourself.
OSWALD CHAMBERS To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most ...
ST. LUCIA In the current law we're seeing Social Security dwindle. And so what we're saying is if we&#...
KEVIN YODER We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Al...
BETTY PARSONS I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpos...
MARLA GIBBS I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because ev...
BEYONCE KNOWLES It's very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what's going on. Think about it: Y...
JAMES WAN Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for t...
LESLEY GORE Sometimes my life is moving so fast that I forget what's going on. I'm just going with the p...
BRYSON TILLER To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY If you don't like it, learn to love it!
RIC FLAIR Learn how to learn before you learn; then learn to love before you love
MUNIA KHAN To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in ...
SARAH WAYNE CALLIES I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we d...
BOBBY KNIGHT The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where...
MICHAEL POLLAN We have to learn how to be on a varsity team and the intensity it brings. We?re getting there. We ma...
CINDY FITZGERALD Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each...
JAVIER BARDEM I got to learn what does and doesn't work on screen. Because the turnaround is so fast, there...
RHYS WAKEFIELD I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the exte...
DICK CHENEY I love mythology and folklore, and I respect the time, money, and opportunity that a film gives to a...
BRIE LARSON We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough asses...
CLARISSA WARD What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when w...
DANIEL KEYS MORAN What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need...
ALISON GOPNIK I think the Brexit vote in Great Britain informing this populist movement of nationalism is kind of ...
DANA CARVEY When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn mo...
MAYIM BIALIK We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for...
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EUGENE O'NEILL The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy th...
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EUGENE O'NEILL It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of t...
EUGENE JARECKI Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame;
I have sipped the so-called Wine of Lif...
EUGENE O'NEILL If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as t...
EUGENE O'NEILL The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bri...
EUGENE CERNAN We are all dead men on leave.
EUGENE LEVINE Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying t...
EUGENE IONESCO All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing...
EUGENE FIELD His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party ...
EUGENE JARECKI Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
EUGENE SUE Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something ...
EUGENE MIRMAN If you're at a party with more than five people named Chad, get the fuck out right away.
EUGENE MIRMAN The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I ...
EUGENE IONESCO I lay on the bowsprit, with the water foaming into spume under me, the masts with every sail white i...
EUGENE O'NEILL Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
EUGENE O'NEILL Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to ...
EUGENE FIELD Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A ma...
EUGENE IONESCO Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clich?s.
EUGENE IONESCO We are the party of all labor. The whole earth shall be ours to share. And every race and craft our ...
EUGENE POTTIER Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to hav...
EUGENE DELACROIX One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
EUGENE O'NEILL A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
EUGENE FIELD A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
EUGENE IONESCO Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
EUGENE DELACROIX When men make gods, there is no God!
EUGENE O'NEILL What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing...
EUGENE DELACROIX A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
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EUGENE O'NEILL For a moment I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free! I belonged, without past or futur...
EUGENE O'NEILL Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, t...
EUGENE DELACROIX Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning l...
EUGENE DELACROIX The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
EUGENE DELACROIX This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the ai...
EUGENE MCCARTHY The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixt...
EUGENE IONESCO I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of ...
EUGENE IONESCO I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that ind...
EUGENE DELACROIX What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or p...
EUGENE DELACROIX For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As thoug...
EUGENE IONESCO There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfwa...
EUGENE IONESCO When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are ...
EUGENE DEBS All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You ...
EUGENE FIELD Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
EUGENE O'NEILL While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while t...
EUGENE DEBS Getters don't get -- givers get.
EUGENE BENGE The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the g...
EUGENE MCCARTHY The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
EUGENE DEBS Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsi...
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EUGENE IONESCO Life without a friend is death without a witness.
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EUGENE FIELD Music is what feelings sound like.
EUGENE DELACROIX No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain ...
EUGENE IONESCO I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
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EUGENE KENNEDY A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
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EUGENE WIGNER Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the w...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the gam...
EUGENE MCCARTHY A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix.
EUGENE DELACROIX One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see,...
EUGENE CERNAN What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the ...
EUGENE DELACROIX To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of othe...
EUGENE CLOUTIER What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing ...
EUGENE DELACROIX You can only predict things after they've happened.
EUGENE IONESCO Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.... the working class who fight all...
EUGENE DEBS The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
EUGENE MCCARTHY Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
EUGENE DELACROIX Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kin...
EUGENE MIRMAN It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
EUGENE MCCARTHY Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
EUGENE KENNEDY If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually not...
EUGENE DELACROIX I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt a...
EUGENE LEVY is a look at what happens on a movie set when the word Oscar gets bandied about.
EUGENE LEVY 'American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered s...
EUGENE LEVY I am the common man, ... I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get p...
EUGENE LEVY Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough ...
EUGENE LEVY It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
EUGENE IONESCO The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public ...
EUGENE JARECKI The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and u...
EUGENE KENNEDY I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Mose...
EUGENE DEBS They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to ...
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I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

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I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

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