Vhodn Quotes & Sayings

All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins. — John C. Maxwell

Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake. — Mary Robinson

Perhaps the media may not always be telling what to think, but it is always telling you what to think about. — James Rozoff

There is no growth in assuming. For it does not give, it takes away. — E'yen A. Gardner

A lot of people don't know the USOC is not government funded and they are always looking for support from sponsors. — Dominique Dawes

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay. — Thomas Merton

Time was funny like that. If you didn't keep track of it, make the most of every moment, it could run away from you. — Donna Augustine

Somehow the church has forgotten what it knew for so long: story goes beyond simply illustrating some spiritual point or other; it gives form to content; it incarnates meaning. — Sarah Arthur

One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters. — Clive Owen

While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only the archetype itself can withstand such projections such as ever-able, all giving, eternally energetic. We may try to emulate these, but they are ideals, not achievable by humans, and not meant to be. Yet the trap requires that women exhaust themselves trying to achieve these unrealistic levels. To avoid the trap, one has to learn to say 'Halt' and 'Stop the music,' and of course mean it. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

There's a right way and a wrong way to do things. If you make a chair, you want to make a nice chair. You want people to admire it. I think doing something well is a form of respect for humanity in general. I have found that all incompetence comes from not paying attention, which comes from people doing something that they don't want to do. And doing what you don't want to do means either you have no choice, or you don't think that the moments of your life are worth fighting for. — Hal Hartley

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time. — Renny Harlin

The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind. — James D. Watson