Goostoff Quotes & Sayings

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it? — Steven Pressfield

After delayed gratification comes greater reward, better profit and greater glory. — Sunday Adelaja

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy. — Mark Messier

Other-oriented feelings congruent with the perceived welfare of another person. — Daniel Batson

But when there were certain moments or scenes that required a very specific nuance or performance, I myself would act out the scene or the sequence and that would inspire the actors. Of course, I can't really express emotions on camera, but I was very active in showing a certain action or a blocking for an actor. I would also participate in certain stunts myself and because of that, I would get bruises or cuts on my knees and elbows. — Kim Jee-woon

You know, if nobody knows who you are, nobody's going to buy your record. — Trent Reznor

The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left ... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings. — Alain De Botton

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: we take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we are trying to protect. — Jodi Picoult

Has that line ever worked for anyone?"
"I'm not feeding you lines. I mean every word."
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"Day One of my life was the day I met you."
"Okay, that's a winner. You can put it in. — Sylvia Day

if you really want to understand the real fear of God, ponder over Joseph with Potiphar's wife in the secret place; think about Abraham on his arduous errand to sacrifice Isaac without the knowledge of Sarah ; understand the urgency Jesus Christ attached to His work and His eagerness to do His Fathers will; appreciate the courage with which Shadrach Meshach and Abednego stood against all odds and also remember Daniel in the Lions Den. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Any writing exposes writers to judgment about the quality of their work and their thought. The closer they get to painful personal truths, the more fear mounts - not just about what they might reveal but about what they might discover should they venture too deeply inside. To write well, however, that's exactly where we must venture. — Ralph Keyes

Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on. — Garrett Hardin

When we write stories that are happy, with little conflict or inference of sin, then we are creating portraits of the world that perpetuate a sort of "soft universalism," the idea that no one is truly lost but rather that all are actually saved. — Gene C. Fant Jr.

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night. — Dick Van Dyke