A Quotes
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“All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.”
“All too often people pretend to be professional. "Professionalism" is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro.”
“All too often people say to artists, 'To be an artist is fine if your art can be used for evangelism.' And art has often become a tool for evangelism. But let's be precise. As such there is nothing against this. But we must be aware that art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse. Christianity is true; things and actions and human endeavor only get their meaning from their relationship to God; if Christ came to make us human, the humanity and the reality of art find their foundation in him. So art should not be used to preach even if it can help. Yet there is another way that art can be or is meaningful.”
Source: Art Needs No Justification
“All too often someone spoils my enjoyment of their company by talking to me.”
“All too often, students from nonmaterially privileged backgrounds assume a position of passivity—they be have as victims, as though they can only be acted upon against their will. Ultimately, they end up feeling they can only reject or accept the norms imposed upon them. This either/or often sets them up for disappointment and failure.”
Source: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“All too often the church holds up a mirror
reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a
different way.”
Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?
“All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.”
“All too often, the rabbit hole is as deep as you have dug it.”
“All too often, the victims of smuggling and trafficking are encouraged to engage in the use of illegal substances.”
“All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.”
“All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.”
Source: The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life
“All too often, we are pleasing the enemy MORE than we are pleasing God by living defeated. Jesus did not die for us to walk around defeated. You have the POWER to turn any situation around that you want to.”
“All too often we as a Black community allow systemic entities to do character reporting and judgment casting on protests, uprisings, our slain, and family/friends of our slain. This is all an attempt to distract the public from the injustices that got us there in the first place.”
“All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.”
“All too often we fail to see the good in a difficult situation. Our minds are wired in such a funny way that we tend to believe just because a door closed it must be a bad thing.”
Source: Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
“All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept.”
“All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when the world seems to keep on turning without them. In business, a man can come nearest to indispensability by being dispensable in his current job. How can a man move up to new responsibilities if he is the only one able to handle his present tasks? It matters not how small or large the job you now have, if you have trained no one to do it as well, you're not available; you've made your promotion difficult if not impossible.”
“All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice.”
“All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense of unworthiness. We have a lot of assumptions about the way the world is that are actually wrong.”
“All too often what we dismiss as merely someone’s opinion is in fact a fact.”
“All too often, when faced with the sadness and suffering of others, we rush to offer comfort in order to ease our own discomfort. While we are no doubt motivated by good intentions, too often we hope to relieve the awkwardness and rawness of the other's suffering. We want to give advice, to solve the problem, to fix what is broken as much to relieve our own discomfort as to genuinely help the other's hurt. Instead, Jesus invites us to come alongside, identify with those suffering and join them in their mourning.”
Source: The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
“All too often, when we love somebody, we don't accept him or her as what the person effectively is. We accept him or her insofar as this person fits the co-ordinates of our fantasy. We misidentify [...] him or her – which is why, when we discover that we were wrong, love can quickly turn into violence.”
“All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do nothing. We say nothing. We let other people fight their own battles. We remain silent because silence is easier. Qui tacet consentire videtur is Latin for 'Silence gives consent.' When we say nothing, when we do nothing, we are consenting to these trespasses against us.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.”
“All too often world history is told as if religion did not matter. The Spanish conquered New Spain for gold, and the British came to New England to catch fish. The French Revolution had nothing to do with Catholicism, and the U.S. civil rights movement was a purely humanitarian endeavor. But even if religion makes no sense to you, you need to make sense of religion to make sense of the world.”
Source: God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
“All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.”
“All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.”
“All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.”
“All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.”
Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
“All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.”
“All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.”
“All too often, parents and kids struggle to find an empathetic ear when confronting bullying situation; these escalate and too often result in marginalization, on top of what may well be a daily gauntlet of harassment and abuse that is fundamentally torture.”
“All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future”
Source: Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
“All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.”
Source: Controversial Essays
“All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.”
Source: Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
“All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.”
“All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.”
Source: Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
“All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.”
Source: Traveling While Married
“All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.”
Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
“All too soon the garden of childhood is paved cold with the asphalt roads of adulthood. And while it is not within her power to halt this unrelenting progression, a mother can diligently guard this most precious garden and insure that the roads become gentle paths that wind through it instead of byways that kill it.”
Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
“All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)
“All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.”
Source: On aggression
“All tools are weapons in the hands of the wrong people.”
Source: Tether
“All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.”
“All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.”
“All top players are the same strokewise, but mentally I can improve and that's where it's at for top players.”
“All top salespeople have a highly evolved will all top leaders have a highly evolved will you see it's the will that gives us the ability to focus”
“All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.”