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John Ortberg Quotes

This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: May 5, 1957

Topics

Learning Spiritual Differences Human

I think you have to kind of feel like you're pretty handsome and cool to be able to step into an audition for some kind of lead hero, and that's just not how I look.

Hero Step Cool Think Handsome Look

When I first joined SAG, there was another John Reilly. My dad was John Reilly, too, but growing up I was John John. Nobody in life calls me John C. It's more like, 'Hey you, Step Brother!'

Life Step Brother Me Growing Up You

It's always very important that you can completely disagree with someone, but it doesn't fundamentally mean that they are bad people.

People Someone Bad People You Bad

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!

Today Alone Simple Lie School Facts

Negative or positive attention - I think it's all great.

Positive Great Negative Think

And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

People Flying NASA Test Pilot Just

I don't believe in writing for goals, or else I'd write essays.

Goals Writing Believe Write Essays

Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.

Humility Me More Club Cancer Would

I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem.

Me Think Meaningful Up Arts Been

You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.

Alone You Act Crew Your Course

The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.

Heart Brand Down New Three Inside

In the beginning, the clients would say, 'This is too much,' but over time, the ones I liked kept working with me. They'd say, 'It's not too much. Coco can still be Coco. She still gives 100 percent when she's on a photo shoot.'

Time Beginning Me Too Much Say She

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