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“The Christmas season is also that time of year when the business world implores us to consider the material as more important than the spiritual, all in the spirit of 'the holidays.' So we celebrate the arrival on Christmas Day of iPods and DVDs... Then again, maybe this is precisely the kind of seasonal silliness that causes the Christian faithful to shut out the noise and contemplate the real nativity scene and its eternal promise.”
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“I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right Stan Musialby his glove and I laugh.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.”
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“It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.”
Source : Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.
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“There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.”
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“The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional ("I feel full of worship" or "The atmosphere is so worshipful"). Actually, it is theological. Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.”
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“The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.”
Source : Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.”