"Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives."

-- Morris Chestnut

#Successful Quotes #Reality Quotes #Careers Quotes

“If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.”

Source : Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.11, WaterBrook
“It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.”

Source : Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.145, Beacon Press
“I have two kids in diapers and a cat whose litter box I clean out. I deal with an awful lot of crap.”
“For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.”
“I'm a horrible historian. My memory is bad. I read things and then I forget them. I can't understand dates and I can't measure time. Time is confusing to me. That's why I do a lot of manipulations of time in my books, in part because an orderly time is physically difficult for me to conceive of in my brain.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no heart; there's no soul. Movies used to be about people. It's as though we don't tell stories any more. The studios have to make money, and if you want to make $20 million, you have to spend $200 million.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“You need to be a person who makes things happen.”
“You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.”

Source : Dan O'Brien (2007). “Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch”, p.171, Random House

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