“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingShouldHas BeensMovingGamesChanceToo MuchFateHeardSacrificeBuildingReadyTerribleDiseasePicksWeaknessLuckActiveChessChances ArePawnsConfidence And Strength Book:Face Source: Face
“The marriage relationship is one of God's creations for building up people. It gives husbands and wives the chance to minister to an immortal human being in a uniquely intimate fashion. To enjoy the meaningfulness of marriage, then, requires a once-made but ongoing commitment of mutual ministry to our mates and the more we seize them, the more meaning our marriage will have.” PeopleGivingHumansMadeEnjoyChanceHuman BeingsWifeFashionCreationBuildingHusbandCommitmentMinistersIntimateImmortalMutualMatesMinistryOngoingHusband And WifeBuilding UpGod's CreationMeaningfulness Author:Larry Crabb
“I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.” PeopleThinkingArtShowsBodyWantedFormChanceBuildingSculptureShowing OffBody Building Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“You simply can't be tentative in a startup. You have to go for it at every chance you get. And if the leader of the organization is anxious, his or her fear pervades the organization. Everything comes from the top in a company. So if you are starting a company or building one, face your fears and move past them. It's critically important to your company.” IfsImportantPastFacesMovingChanceCompanyLeaderBuildingOrganizationStartingAnxiousFace Your Fears Author:Fred Wilson
“I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El Sistema and the old man Abreu. When we were in Venezuela, I had the chance to go to his building. He had, like, five or six orchestras playing of kids from the hood playing, like, Mahler's third symphony and Shostakovich fifth and Beethoven. Man, it's unbelievable. I mean, they could play.” MenMeanDoePlayKidsChanceFiveBuildingSixThirdsOld ManUnbelievableOrchestraFifthSymphonyClassical MusicHoodVenezuelaMahlerShostakovich Author:Wynton Marsalis
“I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and opted for the Home Shopping Network instead), but there was a view among the student writers I knew at that time that good writing came spontaneously, in an uprush of feeling that had to be caught at once; when you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.” WorldWantWritingImportantFeelingsHomeHandsSpeakHeavenChanceViewsGenerationsStudentsBuildingCaughtChanging The WorldShoppingHammersMy GenerationGood WritingStairwaysStairway To Heaven Author:Stephen King