Max Lucado Quotes

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

Max Lucado

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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Johann G. Seume

StupidityMindBodyIdleness

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

Jennifer Connelly

NatureGrowing UpGrowingKindMore

I don't see myself as some television star; I see myself as a girl from Albany.

Megyn Kelly

GirlMyselfTelevisionSeeI See

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

John Irving

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I have a good life.

Maurice Sendak

LifeGoodGood Life

When people didn't really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.

Anjelah Johnson

MyselfPeopleFeelLaughDownDumb

Most people I knew had been crippled by their educations. Some were even dying spiritually.

Michael Cimino

PeopleDyingBeenEvenKnewMost

I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.

Sterling K. Brown

WorkGreatBlackRememberActorDid

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Tom Wolfe

LonelinessVanityCureSurest

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

Roger Bannister

OpportunityMountainClimbLovedGo

A positive, high-performance culture can quickly turn negative if the CEO is not rigorous in constantly articulating values and holding people accountable for both results and values.

Ron Williams

PositiveCulturePeopleNegativeCEO

I didn't do it for the money. I know a lot of people say that, but if I'd wanted to be rich, I'd have stayed working as a city lawyer. I gave that up eight years ago and took a massive drop in salary, and I didn't mind because I was doing what I loved. There's plenty of material for the other five books.

Michelle Paver

MoneyPeopleCityMindLawyerLoved

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