Hildesheimer Tennis Quotes & Sayings

The idols of modern culture have had a profound influence on the shape of our work today. In traditional societies people found their meaning and sense of value by submitting their interests and sacrificing their desires to serve higher causes like God, family, and other people. In modern societies there is often no higher cause than individual interests and desires. This shift powerfully changed the role of work in people's lives - it now became the way we defined ourselves. Traditional cultures tended to see people's place on the social ladder as assigned by nature or convention, each family having its "proper place." That view had put too little stock in the role of individual talent, ambition, and hard work for determining the outcome of one's life. But modern society responded by putting too much stock in the autonomous person. — Timothy Keller

Tell me what you want, love," I tell her, my voice rough with lust. "Tell me what you want and I'll give you what I have. — Karina Halle

If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator. — Jaggi Vasudev

...it is a fundamental mistake, in my opinion, to try to abolish the mobility of pastoral man which has been the single most important factor in his successful mastery of a very difficult environment. — David Keith Jones

Writing a log line helps you define - for yourself - the essential elements of the plot. It will also let you know immediately if major components of the plot are missing. — David Macinnis Gill

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another? — James D. Houston

If the only way I can make myself look good is to criticize you, something is seriously wrong with me. — Warren W. Wiersbe

On some days I think it would be better if there were no religions. All religions and all scriptures conceal the potential for violence. That is why we need secular ethics beyond all religions. It is more important for schools to have classes on ethics than religion. Why? Because it's more important for humanity's survival to be aware of our commonalities than to constantly emphasize what divides us. — Dalai Lama XIV

One of our greatest advantages as human beings is that as long as we are alive, we can change. — Arinna Weisman