Messages Quotes - Page 23

• The message sent is not always the message received.

  Virginia Satir

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• Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he was too little and his mind was formless and without messages.( Elf the tiny kitten Mungo tormented )

  Martha Grimes

  Dog, Thinking, Mind

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• [On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Political, Way, Wanted

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.

  Roger Ebert

  Numbers, Community, Survival

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• I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

  John Woo

  Evil, Violence, Action

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• For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer sends a message: Here's the data that would have helped you improve your teaching based on the needs of these students if you would have had it in time, but since it's late and there's nothing you can do about it, we'll just release it to the newspapers so they can editorialize again about how bad our schools are.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Summer, Teacher, Teaching

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• The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

  Jane Rule

  Education, Aggravation, Liberation

  Jane Rule (2013). “A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays”, p.140, Open Road Media

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• Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message

  Seth Godin

  Organization, Passionate, Tiny

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• It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.

  Pete Carroll

  Words You Say, Energetic

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• I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it, but we really hope the conservation message rubs off in our film. Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

  Steve Irwin

  Country, Optimistic, Environmental

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• The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart center; it opens you more. In fact, when you refrain from absorbing the energy around you, you’ll remain clear and grounded, you’ll be able to easily access your creative and intuitive channel, and you’ll be able to choose to use the messages you receive from your Higher Self.

  Sonia Choquette

  Heart, Cutting, Emotional

  FaceBook post by Sonia Choquette from Jan 28, 2014

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• Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Confusing, Sexuality

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• I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Reading, Faithful, Letters

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• I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.

  Judy Collins

  Dream, Past, Giving

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• People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

  Kevin Rudd

  Giving, People, Community

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• The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

  Frank Gehry

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Copying

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• When the message out there is so horrible that, to be gay, you can get killed for it... we need to change the message!!

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Gay, Needs, Horrible

  "Showbiz Tonight", www.cnn.com. February 29, 2008.

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• Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

  George Eliot

  Messengers

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.432

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• Somewhere, sometime, somehow you got tangled up in garbage, and you've been avoiding God. You've allowed a veil of guilt to come between you and your Father. You wonder if you could ever feel close to God again. The message of the torn flesh is you can. God welcomes you. God is not avoiding you. God is not resisting you. The curtain is down, the door is open, and God invites you in

  Max Lucado

  Father, Doors, Tangled

  Max Lucado (2012). “He Chose the Nails”, p.191, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Stronger, Grows

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.81, Image

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• The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the direct simplicity of its message and...its appeal to men of all lands and times.

  William F. Albright

  Bible, Religious, Men

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• I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for their growth.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Compassion, Offering, Growth

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• An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Intelligent, Ideas, Doe

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• Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Transfiguration

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• There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their narrow vision and envy, they have missed the true essence and message of religion which is love and compassion.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Compassion, Essence, Envy

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