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Learning isn\'t acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
“If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After a while you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.”
“Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.”
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“Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.”
“An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?”
Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.
When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on
An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.
An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.
When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our servant to a slave, a deduction into the realm of selfhood and then the lower, slavehood. It's a spiritual mathematics in that men who need God in his godhood are humble yet strong and spiritually ambitious while men who need a slave in their selfhood are ultimately paralyzed and will remain paralyzed.
Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.
Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.
Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.
Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.
Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.
It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.
Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for all since the beginning of mankind and throughout civilization. I have yet to feel the urge to argue politics: it reminds me of getting off the freeway to sit in raging traffic.
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A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.
A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.