"Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them."

-- Philip Yancey

#Grace Quotes #Lenses Quotes #Unnoticed Quotes

“Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.”
“Think 8 hours, work 2 hours.”
“If they just reverse the division, ban the judges, and then it'll discourage other judges from ever doing this.”
“Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.”
“I'm looking at my window right now and it's a perfect blue sky. And if you ask people about Sept. 11, the one thing they'll tell you is how serenely, awesomely, perfectly blue the sky was. The juxtaposition of how the day began and what happened is jarring even now.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?”

Source : Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1938). “Collected Poems”
“A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player”
“Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These, too, are nets. Above all, resist the fear of failure. Yes, you will make mistakes. But they will be your mistakes, not someone else's. And you will survive them, and you will know yourself better for having made them, and you will be a fuller and a stronger person.”

Source : "What Are You Going to Do With That?". Essay adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May 2010, www.chronicle.com. October 03, 2010.

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