"Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment."

-- Calvin Miller

#Commitment Quotes #Artist Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.”
“I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.”
“Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.”
“Hopefully God will allow me to turn my biggest mistake into my greatest success.”
“Here in Florida we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.”
“This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.”
“I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.”

Source : David M. Shoup's speech to community college students at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California, on World Affairs Day, May 14, 1966.
“How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain't got no business with!”

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