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John Ortberg Quotes

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Learning Academic Led Which

Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.

Great Justice Values Quiet Labor

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

Joely Richardson

Mother Money School Building Three

I think it's true we look forward to enormous amounts of information, but I think we would be better off if we thought about the kinds of wisdom and thoughtfulness that we need in order to handle the amount of information ahead.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Wisdom Forward Think Thought Better

Oh, I can't sleep, whatever - it's a huge problem. The comedian's thing is you self-medicate with alcohol and knock yourself out - but obviously, that's not a long-term strategy.

Yourself Sleep Alcohol Strategy You

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Experience I Am Me Writing Language

It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

Fitness Fat Body Muscle Low Weight

I think if we were going to worry about teen pregnancy being glamorized, we should worry about shows like 'Teen Mom'. If people are going to want to have children at a young age because they see it on TV, I think that depends on the type of person you're dealing with.

Age Children Teen People Mom Think

Apart from work, whatever pending things I have to do, I do it in Murshidabad.

Work Whatever Things Apart

I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.

Love Side Relate Both African

You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.

Waiting You Play Know Want Over

Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.'

Power Courage Saying Friends Doing

I don't do style. I just show up for the games.

Style Games Up Show Just

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