“Nakedness of what you do is exactly who you are, and that's how it should come across.” Quote by Negash Ali
“I developed a long time ago some habits. One of them is what I call "divert daily, withdraw weekly, and abandon annually." Divert daily is everyday you do something that's not work-related. You do something that relaxes you. Then you withdraw weekly. The Bible says every seven days you take a day off. And then abandon annually means you just go out and forget it all.” MeanLongForgetHabitLong TimeSevenEverydayRelatedRelaxAbandonForget ItLong Time AgoDays OffSeven DaysWork Related Author:Rick Warren
“In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim some authority over our own experiences and their meanings.” StoriesEventsParticularAuthorityClaimsNarrative Author:Peg O'Connor
“My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I'm motivated, if I'm on fire, it's going to catch with somebody else.” IfsWholeGoalFireMotivatedSelf Motivated Author:Rick Warren
“You must never let your personal life be outpaced by your professional life. If you do, [if] your professional life takes more of your time than your personal life, then that's called stress, okay? And it's called worry and things like that. Worry is a sign that you're trying to be God. The greatest stress reliever to me is this sentence: God is God, and I'm not.” IfsTryingLife IsWorryOkayStressSentencesPersonal LifeProfessional LifeStress Reliever Author:Rick Warren
“Anxiety is the dizziness we experience when we recognize we hold the freedom and responsibility for our life choices. More than anyone, alcoholics have a very clear sense of this dizziness, especially when we were coming to realize our own powerlessness over alcohol and that we could act differently.” ChoicesRealizingResponsibilityClearOur LivesAnxietyAlcoholAlcoholicsLife ChoicesPowerlessnessFreedom And Responsibility Author:Peg O'Connor
“I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously.” UniverseImagineStressHeyManagersGeneral ManagerStress Reliever Author:Rick Warren
“We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material.” IfsWayEnoughLaughingHumilityMaterialsRootsAccidentsPlentyLaugh At Yourself Author:Rick Warren
“The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're not bothered by these.” WorldHumansDoeWholeConditionsFactorsEmpoweringHostPowerlessBotheredPowerlessnessAcknowledgmentNot Bothered Author:Peg O'Connor
“If you take a look at the most fantastic schemes that are considered impossible: teleportation, warp drive, parallel universes, other dimensions, artificial intelligence, ray guns, you realize that they can be possible if we advance technology a little bit.” IfsLooksLittlesUniverseBitsRealizingTechnologyImpossibleLittle BitGunFantasticDimensionsArtificial IntelligenceRaysArtificialSchemesParallelsWarpParallel Universe Author:Michio Kaku
“I can't overrule gravity or turn away an approaching hurricane. I'm powerless over those things, yet this doesn't mean that I can't act with responsibility. I can pack provisions and head to my cellar as a storm approaches.” MeanI CanTurnsResponsibilityApproachStormGravityPacksPowerlessProvisionHurricanesCellars Author:Peg O'Connor