Ascentive Performance Quotes & Sayings

It is useless work that darkens the heart. — Ursula K. Le Guin

No, the next time i kiss you it'll last a long, long time. And then when we're done you're gonna realize being turned on is not about experience — Simone Elkeles

No story shows more clearly Jesus' utter disregard of human privilege - disregard, not antipathy or distaste. He is swayed neither by Jairus's prominence nor by the woman's poverty, but by the faith and desperate need of each one. Jesus is not a strategic political calculator, currying favor with the local leaders; nor is he a revolutionary, ostentatiously undercutting the powerful. He is a restorer of daughters, known and unknown, socially central and socially marginal. And while he is indifferent to human power, he is so exquisitely aware of his own power to restore health (which is simply another way to say flourishing image bearing) that the slightest faithful brush with his cloak brings him to a halt, not content to have power flow anonymously and disconnectedly, searching out relationship with the ones who seek him. — Andy Crouch

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency. — Eamon De Valera

Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of our eyes and then we're defined by our job. — Tom Hiddleston

Late fees are the enemy of early literacy because instead of promoting responsible behavior, they suppress library visits for some of the people who need the institution the most. And of course these fees don't promote children being more responsible, but only reveal to children how irresponsible, ignorant, or unaware their own parents are. -- Amy Dickinson — Kyle Cassidy

If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious. — John Eliot

I breathe you," he whispered. "You're everything. You're the air."
-Gabriel — Sylvain Reynard

I'm a point guard, I've always been a point guard, I've played point guard all my life. Personally, I feel the best point guards make other players look better and create their own shot. I fit in that category. — Chauncey Billups

In fact, the habit of setting and achieving ever-larger goals is absolutely indispensable to the development of ever-higher levels of self-confidence and personal power. — Brian Tracy

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it. — Paulo Coelho

I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident. — Joyce Thompson