Home / Quotes / Quote by Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

Quote by Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

“I do so love hearing people speak passionately on any subject, other than themselves.”

Quote by Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

Author

Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet. more

You May Also Like

“Confession is a difficult discipline for us, because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else has advanced so far into holiness that we are isolated and alone in our sin.”

Church Humility Small Groups

Book:Celebration of Discipline

Source: Celebration of Discipline

“Value the wisdom of humility, as well as the sense of perspective it gives you.”

Author:Chris Hadfield

“You hand over control, you start winning.”

Humility Curiosity Openess

Book:What Would Google Do?: Reverse Engineering Business Strategies for Survival and Success in the Internet Era

Source: What Would Google Do?: Reverse Engineering Business Strategies for Survival and Success in the Internet Era

“Look here, it's all very tidy and convenient to see the world in black and white,' said the Major, trying to soften his tone slightly. 'It's a particular passion of young men eager to sweep away their dusty elders.' He stopped to organize his thoughts into some statement short enough for a youthful attention span. 'However, philosophical rigidity is usually combined with a complete lack of education or real-world experience, and it is often augmented with strange haircuts and an aversion to bathing. Not in your case, of course—you are very neat.' Abdul Wahid looked confused, which was an improvement over the frown. 'You are very strange,' he said. 'Are you saying it is wrong, stupid, to try to live a life of faith?' 'No, I think it is admirable,' said the Major. 'But I think a life of faith must start with remembering that humility is the first virtue before God.”

Faith Youth Humility

Book:Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Source: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

“Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven’t yet found a way to learn from them.”

Humility Curiosity

Author:Eric Greitens

“I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of America.”

Knowledge Humility

Book:#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Source: #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

“And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was”

Book:Blue Fire

Source: Blue Fire

“I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.”

Marriage Humility Unity Teamwork Partnership Meekness

Book:The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

Source: The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

“Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): "What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.”

Humility Conversation Discipleship Confrontation

Author:Frasier Crane

“Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.”

History Humility Storytelling

Author:Gordon S. Wood