Things To Do Quotes - Page 39

• Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.

  Jerry Bridges

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Religious

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate”, p.42, Tyndale House

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• At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Cutting, Dedication

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• Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

  Jonathan Ive

  Kindness, Business, Comeback

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• Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspiring, Team, Lessons

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2017

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• ....the designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing to do. Most people "look" at a lot of thing but never "see" anything. Looking is emotional; seeing is an intellectual process.

  Albert Hadley

  Emotional, Essence, People

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• Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view...but you always want to be counterattacking...a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.

  Barney Chavous

  Sports, Football, Exercise

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• If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.

  Rick Warren

  Inspiration, Worry, Reactions

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• If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

  Emmet Fox

  Inspiration, People, Would Be

  Emmet Fox (1946). “Make your life worth while”, Harper San Francisco

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• Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Pleasure, Gods Will, Serving God

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• I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.

  Thomas Muster

  Umpires, Careers, Goal

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• I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Speaks Out, Issues, Political

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• There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, I mean, it's a really vulnerable place to be in. It's a huge thing to do.

  Ryan Adams

  Thinking, Rocks, Musician

  "Morning Becomes Eclectic" with Jason Bentley, www.kcrw.com. December 02, 2011.

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• There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

  David Eagleman

  Numbers, Boring, Infinite

  "The Possibilian" by Burkhard Bilger, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2011.

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• And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

  Joseph J. Ellis

  Penance, Kind, Sin

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• I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.

  Tom Freston

  Art, People, Atoms

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• It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

  Abel Ferrara

  Laughing, Looks, Hardest

  "Abel Ferrara On “go Go Tales”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. October 8.

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• People say to me, Oh, it's so wonderful that you're writing about real things, and that it's a political thing to do, and I say, look-to be in my position and not say anything is a hell of a political thing. You need to think politically, otherwise you'll be one of these people who says, Oh, this person's saying this and that person's saying that, and I'm confused. And I say, yeah, because you want to be confused.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, Confused, Writing

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• And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B. It's the responsible thing to do as a fiduciary, and yet if everyone does it at the same time, it's destabilizing because everyone is selling.

  James Chanos

  Fiduciary, Doe, Selling

  "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

  Jane Campion

  Thinking, Television, Conservative

  "Jane Campion Says Feature Films Can Be Conservative". www.theguardian.com. October 09, 2012.

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• What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

  Dennis Farina

  Might, Policemen, Entertaining

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• When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.

  Howard Fineman

  Iraq, People, Hussein

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• Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.

  Peter Hook

  Yeah, Ready, Feels

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• Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

  Russel Honore

  Country, Waiting, Political

  "A general talks storm lessons since Katrina". Interview with Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2011.

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• What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

  Angus T. Jones

  Careers, Acting, Want

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• I don't stand in anybody else's way of accomplishing their dreams, and I don't like people standing in my way, either. That seems like a hostile thing to do.

  Jamey Johnson

  Dream, People, Way

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