Stellingwerff Quotes & Sayings

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations. On the other hand, the same thing recurring on different days, in different contexts, read, recited on, referred to again and again, related to other things and reviewed, gets well wrought into the mental structure. — William James

Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles. — Charles Spurgeon

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do. — Don McLean

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long. — Arthur C. Clarke

It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious ... I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life. — Arthur Leonard Schawlow

There's nothing more tragic than a man who gains weight like a woman does. — Edan Lepucki

Isn't death the boundary we need? — Don DeLillo

Time travel is possible. Will explain later — Jose Canseco

The No.1 thing people can do to increase their wealth is to start a part-time business. — Robert Kiyosaki

Men like to imagine and think vulgar thoughts, but present them with boldness and they run scared. — Anya Wylde

I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence. — Dambisa Moyo

It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we say anything bad about the leaders of the Church, whether true or false, we tend to impair their influence and their usefulness and are thus working against the Lord and his cause.' ... The Holy Ghost will not guide or confirm criticism of the Lord's anointed, or of Church leaders, local or general. This reality should be part of the spiritual evaluation that LDS readers and viewers apply to those things written about our history and those who made it. — Dallin H. Oaks