Schurenbergweg Quotes & Sayings

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's. — Ezra Taft Benson

People lose a lot of time being afraid... People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all. — L. Frank Baum

All authentic academic research is based on the simultaneous pursuit of the True, the Beautiful, and the Good - if any is pursued separately, imbalance ensues. — Keith Critchlow

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design. — Thomas A. Stewart

If you feel far from God right now, guess who moved? You're only a decision away from reconnecting. — Anne Graham Lotz

Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members. Yet despite all this, most clever people still call for government to run more things and assume that if it did so, it would somehow be more perfect, more selfless, next time. — Matt Ridley

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book. — Lev Grossman

Is it better to not get to know them?' 'No. It's not. It's sharking your responsibility, and it's disrespectful. Get to know them, and then you fully understand the price you're asking them to pay. — Karen Traviss

To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next? — Amor Towles

And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago. — David Coleman

I'm the kind of person who has to experience something physically, actually touch something, before I have a clear sense of it. No matter what it is, unless I see it with my own eyes I'm not convinced. I'm a physical, not intellectual, type of person. Of course I have a certain amount of intelligence - at least I think I do. If I totally lacked that there'd be no way I could write novels. But I'm not the type who operates through pure theory or logic, not the type whose energy source is intellectual speculation. — Haruki Murakami

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal. — Gretchen Rubin

My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it. — Bill De Blasio

Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things above all that we ask or think. — Andy Murray

Some people become so immersed an a show, they have an image that the actor is not too dissimilar, but fortunately I've never had that experience. — Robbie Kay