Robert Piper famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Failure assumes the world is black and white - no gray. I've come to find, it's all gray.
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Watching the news inspires me to keep going and reminds me why I should never complain. I'm inspired by those who don't let others define them: Martin Luther King Jr., James Dean, Vincent Van Gogh, Hillary Clinton, Tennessee Williams, director Steve McQueen. They've all changed the conversation by making their voices heard.
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I try to stay on top of my game physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
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I have great friends. That's key for me for: surrounding myself with people who are supportive and kind.
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I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.
-- Robert Piper
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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
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Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
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Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt ***** shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.
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