“While our modern culture is replete with stories incorporating every imaginable setting, plot and character, the history of storytelling has been characterised by the retelling of a few basic stories, involving a selection of core character types.” ScienceThoughtsInvention Author:Daniel Smith
“I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit.” PeopleSpiritRelationshipPlanetsHolyConnectionsExcitedHoly SpiritNetworkingRefiningLove Connection Author:Daniel Smith
“The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that's nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head.” TryingYearsRealHardLyingDangerHard WorkAnxietyBullySadistic Book:Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety Source: Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
“Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.” TogetherSongLordShareFiguresMy FamilyGuitarAcousticsAcoustic GuitarInstrumentation Author:Daniel Smith
“Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.” FeelingsPurposeRegretGuiltEducationalUselessCodeEthicalRemorse Book:Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety Source: Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
“Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.” SoundInfluenceComplexesFolksRanBobDylanRip Author:Daniel Smith
“There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.” PeopleIdeasUseMovingPureOriginalsRaisesSelfishInsincereSelfish People Author:Daniel Smith