I'm grateful for the evangelical resurgence we've seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God's doing.
Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
Here on Earth, we're exposed to asteroids hitting the Earth, eventual changes in the Sun, changes in the Earth's climate, things we're doing to the Earth's climate. If we want to survive, we need to become a multi-planet species. That's further down the road, but the first wave is going to be the explorers.
Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.
I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.
If you want to just make a good movie, if you don't enjoy every step and become a master of each little moment, then you shouldn't be doing it.
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband.
Regrettably, many religious traditions exacerbate our innate proclivity to divide the world into two clearly demarcated camps, and in doing so, this fans the flames of intolerance and hate.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.
I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.
In the telecommunications, consumer products, and railway businesses, there are very real consequences if you don't meet the consumer's needs and desires. There are also substantive rewards for doing so, and especially for exceeding customer expectations.
I think we should be unapologetic that we excel - and look beautiful while doing it.
You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
I had a very exciting life in Italy, and I was doing lots of variety shows.
I really want to do a Western. I want to be the dude who is riding horses and doing exciting things - something where I get to do something physical and have to train for it. I don't want to be the damsel.
