Serving Quotes - Page 35

• Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.

  Eugene Linden

  Lying, Self, Years

  Eugene Linden (2011). “The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t”, p.231, Penguin

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• I think that you are serving others when you share pieces of yourself with other people.

  Angel Grant

  Thinking, People, Pieces

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• Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.

  Brian Houston

  Goal, Leader, Contagious

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2015

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• Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide leaves at least half of us without a home. We may live on the same land, but our nation and the citizens of that nation have been exiled into a national wilderness.

  Larisa Alexandrovna

  Country, Home, Self

  "You Are an American". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2005.

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• I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, People, Office

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• There is no finer way to demonstrate love of God than by serving Him in the positions to which we may be called. Occasionally, the reward for that service will be prompt, and we'll see the light in the eyes of the person whom we have helped. Other times, however, the Lord will let us wait a little while and let our reward come another way.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Eye, Light, Waiting

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization would probably flunk. We have a very convenient and self-serving way of defining intelligence. If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

  John Robbins

  Animal, Self, Civilization

  John Robbins (2011). “Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth”, p.38, H J Kramer

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• Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.

  George Barna

  Art, Son, People

  George Barna (2006). “A Fish Out of Water: 9 Strategies to Maximize Your God-Given Leadership Potential”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

  Muhammad Ali

  Believe, People, Church

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• If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.

  Charlie Munger

  Self, Fool, Bias

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• I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants.

  Woody Allen

  Work, Chinese, Shallow

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• I'm really trying to just keep this internal, and be faithful to the story and the characters, and keep 99.9% of my brain there, serving the story. It's a great network. It's the golden network of cable, so it's totally an honor to be there and tell this story, but I try not to think about anything beyond that.

  Veena Sud

  Character, Thinking, Faithful

  Source: collider.com

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• If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

  Cornel West

  Always Trying, Causes, Serving Others

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So my doctor told me to watch what I'm eating - to read food labels. I'm in the store reading the Fig Newtons label: I've always liked Fig Newtons. I'm reading the label to make sure everything's fine: fat content. I looked at the serving size; two cookies. Who eats two cookies? I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve: two sleeves is a serving size. I open them both and eat them like a tree chipper; Fig Newton shavings coming off the side.

  Brian Regan

  Reading, Doctors, Two

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• I am faced with a bruising dilemma: pay to fix the dishwasher or continue serving everything in waffle cones.

  Dana Gould

  Waffles, Pay, Cones

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• I'm half-Mexican - get used to it 'cause in about five to 10 years, you're all gonna be related to one. Whether you like it or not, no matter how much you prepared your family, you're gonna show up at Thanksgiving one of these years, you're gonna walk in and say, 'Hey! What's happening? Since when did we start serving flan?' Well, what's happening is that somebody's boning a Latino.

  Al Madrigal

  Years, Mexican, Hey

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• It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during this period. Then as time passes one finds oneself more in the role of serving the medium... Then, as in the example of several masters that I have been privileged to know personally, it appears that by having devoted oneself totally to the medium, one becomes photography.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Years, Crafts

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• We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.

  Mother Teresa

  Mean, Long, Giving

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• One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's best become feasible. If you let go of your own compulsion and greed the things you are conditioned into by your culture then the more archetypal, more universally valid, more human, more compassionate, wiser activities and thoughts can come to your mind and you can dedicate yourself to them more fully.

  Rafe Martin

  Letting Go, Creating, Space

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• The times when I feel not alive is when I feel stifled, when I feel like the emotion that's in me is not coming out. I'm too busy, too hectic. I'm serving my iPhone more than my spirit. Those are the times I feel bad.

  Michael Franti

  Iphone, Alive, Spirit

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Don't settle for something that's not great. Don't feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.

  Michael Franti

  Important, Needs, Settling

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology hews closer to what makes being human so hard: it reminds you with each story how quickly everything we are, everything we call our lives can change, can be upended, can disappear. Never to return.

  Junot Diaz

  Stories, Pages, Return

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.

  Charles Schumer

  Christian, Judging, Belief

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• Surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the group. Associate with these people on a regular basis.

  Jeff Olson

  People, Goal, Mind

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• Former Secretary (Hillary) Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy. These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year's Liberty Medal.

  Jeb Bush

  Years, People, Leader

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