Jacob Gelt Dekker famous quotes

Believe in what you can do and be not deterred by what others say.
-- Jacob Gelt Dekker

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Goals are to be set clear without frills. Do not be deterred and take reality as it is, not as it should be.
-- Jacob Gelt Dekker

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Opportunities are always everywhere, learn to see and create them.
-- Jacob Gelt Dekker

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With average or even minimum ability, success is still very possible.
-- Jacob Gelt Dekker

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Honesty towards yourself. Looking into your mirror, any time all the time will guide.
-- Jacob Gelt Dekker

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Responsibility is something you take as a matter of fact, like breathing air; living without it is impossible, but do not think about it too much.
-- Jacob Gelt Dekker

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A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

All money is a matter of belief.

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.