John Ortberg Quotes

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

John Ortberg

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There are writers' rooms that will write episodes all together, who will break into little groups and write certain scenes. Everyone's process can be a little bit malleable. Everyone tries to get into a groove or find what works for their room.

Jim Rash

TogetherProcessFindWillWrite

No pharmaceutical company is making money by selling biological knowledge - they make money by selling chemicals. So getting as much of that knowledge as possible into the efficiency of the Web-commerce world is going to make it faster to find those chemicals.

John Wilbanks

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I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

Michael Bloomberg

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I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'

John Searle

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I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.

Amanda Lindhout

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The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

Ronald Coase

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It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Mo Rocca

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Life is more important than work.

Diane Kruger

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Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

Dennis Prager

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You're just constantly battling this thing that is telling you, 'I don't think I can do it.' I think we all have it. When you're fresh and alert, you can easily put those doubts down. But when you're tired, they easily come up to the surface.

Ashton Eaton

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'Beautiful Loser' had a lot of great records. It had a lot of really heartfelt songs on there. But I felt, at the time, it didn't have it's own cohesive sound.

Kyle

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It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

Henry Chadwick

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