Matt Shively Quotes & Sayings

All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures. — Brian Tracy

Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free. — Christine Kane

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out. — Diana Krall

A philosophical thought is not supposed to be impervious to all criticism; this is the error Whitehead describes of turning philosophy into geometry, and it is useful primarily as a way of gaining short-term triumphs in personal arguments that no one else cares (or even knows) about anyway. A good philosophical thought will always be subject to criticisms (as Heidegger's or Whitehead's best insights all are) but they are of such elegance and depth that they change the terms of debate, and function as a sort of "obligatory passage point" (Latour's term) in the discussions that follow.
Or in other words, the reason Being and Time is still such a classic, with hundreds of thousands or millions of readers almost a century later, is not because Heidegger made "fewer mistakes" than others of his generation. Mistakes need to be cleaned up, but that is not the primary engine of personal or collective intellectual progress. — Graham Harman

Abruptly, Templeton cut short his thoughts. There was a brief pause, almost as if he was uncertain whether he should continue.
'Uh ... but ... no,' he said slowly, 'he's the most ...' He stopped, then started again. 'In my view,' he declared, 'he is the most important human being who ever existed.'
That's when Templeton uttered the words I neer expected to hear from him. ' And if I may put it this way,' he said in a voice that began to crack, 'I ... miss ... him!'
With that tears flooded his eyes. He turned his head and looked downward, raising his left hand to shield his face from me. His shoulders bobbed as he wept."

-Former Minister and now Agnostic Charles Templeton speaking of Jesus — Lee Strobel

Don't break your promise. Sweat the small stuff. Love your brand. Love your customers. — Ken Goldstein

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on. — Laura Dern

He recognized that he was feeling something he head never experienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. — Paulo Coelho

Will we ever understand the price of ambition, or ever apply our heart to life with submission? — Francisco Leon

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life. — Rajneesh

In the spiritual realms, we can only see the things of the spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita