Gompel Joshua Quotes

To think," Borges writes, "is to forget. ~ Joshua Foer

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today. ~ Joshua Foer

In the back of Neil's mind he could hear a few faint words. 'I promise, I will see you again. ~ Joshua Mendrala

Cooperation evolves only if individuals who are prone to cooperation outcompete individuals who are not (or who are less so). Thus, if morality is a set of adaptations for cooperation, we today are moral beings only because our morally minded ancestors outcompeted their less morally minded neighbors. And thus, insofar as morality is a biological adaptation, it evolved not only as a device for putting Us ahead of Me, but as a device for putting Us ahead of Them. ~ Joshua Greene

You are one belief away from breakthrough. It's a choice, so choose the next right thing, you can do it! ~ Joshua Stannard

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement ... get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Our brains are obviously capable of astoundingly fast and complex calculations that happen subconsciously. We can't explain them because most of the time we hardly even realize they're happening. ~ Joshua Foer

Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory. ~ Joshua Oppenheimer

I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage. ~ Joshua Michael Stern

If you have truly been born again, it was the Holy Spirit who convicted you of sin and drew you into a relationship with Jesus. ~ T. B. Joshua

The purpose of life is to glorify God in both good and hard times alike. ~ T. B. Joshua

My parents are the ones who really help me be grounded. I still go to school, I still do fun stuff with my friends; for the most part, I am a normal kid. It just so happens that I do some acting too! ~ Joshua Rush

A zealous man in religion is pre-eminently a man of one thing. It is not enough to say that he is earnest, hearty, uncompromising, thorough-going, whole-hearted, fervent in spirit. He sees one thing, he cares for one thing, he lives for one thing, he is swallowed-up in one thing - and that one thing is to please God. Whether he lives - or whether he dies; whether he has health - or whether he has sickness; whether he is rich - or whether he is poor; whether he pleases man - or whether he gives offence; whether he is thought wise - or whether he is thought foolish; whether he gets blame - or whether he gets praise; whether he gets honor, or whether he gets shame - for all this the zealous man cares nothing at all. He burns for one thing - and that one thing is to please God, and to advance God's glory. If he is consumed in the very burning - he is content. He feels that, like a lamp, he is made to burn, and if consumed in burning - he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach, and work, and give money - he will cry, and sigh, and pray. Yes, if he is only a pauper, on a perpetual bed of sickness - he will make the wheels of sin around him drive heavily, by continually interceding against it. If he cannot fight in the valley with Joshua - then he will do the prayer-work of Moses, Aaron, and Hur, on the hill. (Exod. 17:9-13.) If he is cut off from working himself - he wil ~ J.C. Ryle

Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you dream of them in a different way than I do. ~ Joshua Jackson

The Angel (in Joshua) declared that he was born leader and indicated that he was in the army of the Lord. The Lord was the commander of that angel, and he is our commander still. We favor no human on either side of any argument. ~ Dennis Garvin

Lincoln's story confounds those who see depression as a collection of symptoms to be eliminated. But it resonates with those who see suffering as a potential catalyst of emotional growth. "What man actually needs," the psychiatrist Victor Frankl argued,"is not a tension-less state but rather the striving and struggling of a worthwhile goal." Many believe that psychological health comes with the relief of distress. But Frankl proposed that all people-- and particularly those under some emotional weight-- need a purpose that will both draw on their talents and transcend their lives. For Lincoln, this sense of purpose was indeed the key that unlocked the gates of a mental prison. This doesn't mean his suffering went away. In fact, as his life became richer and more satisfying, his melancholy exerted a stronger pull. He now responded to that pull by tying it to his newly defined sense of purpose. From a place of trouble, he looked for meaning. He looked at imperfection and sought redemption. ~ Joshua Wolf Shenk

I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me. ~ Joshua Graham

We're going to have ourselves one hell of a Ruckus, said Smokey with a grin that went quite beyond the boundaries of mischief and right into the realm of delinquency. ~ Joshua Donellan

If you film a little boy going to school, the big event in that boy's day and all the classmates' and teachers' day is you being there filming, not the school. ~ Joshua Oppenheimer

I'm happy if my music is being downloaded, whether it's legally or illegally. ~ Joshua Bell

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free. ~ Joshua Nkomo

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin. ~ Joshua Loth Liebman

We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice. ~ Joshua Oppenheimer

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry. ~ Joshua Bell

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about. ~ Joshua Foer

Amateur musicians, for example, are more likely to spend their practice time playing music, whereas pros are more likely to work through tedious exercises or focus on specific, difficult parts of pieces. ~ Joshua Foer

You are so amazed by grace, you're not picking a fight with anyone, you're just crying tears of amazement that should lead to a heart for lost people, that God does indeed save, when he doesn't have to save anybody. ~ Joshua Harris

Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

A secret to be happy. Enjoy your life to the max.. But keep God as your first priority ~ Joshua John

Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men ... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir. ~ B.C. Forbes

I wouldn't change any part of my life that I've lived up until now. I kind of believe in fate a little bit and I believe that whether it be good or bad, everything is happening for a reason regardless of how good or how terrible it is. ~ Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. ~ Joshua Reynolds

There may be times when competition is appropriate, but life is not one of them. We have all been thrown together at this exact moment on this planet. And the sooner we stop competing against others to "win," the faster we can start working together to figure it out. The first and most important step in overcoming the habit of competition is to routinely appreciate and compliment the contribution of others. ~ Joshua Becker

Purity consists of more than remaining a virgin. ~ Joshua Harris

Didn't know what was important and what was trivial. They couldn't remember what mattered. Without a conceptual framework in which to embed what they were learning, they were effectively amnesics. ~ Joshua Foer

You really didn't need money to be happy with a person who just so happens to be the person who makes you happy. ~ Joshua J. Johnson

I argue that synagogue leaders have it backwards. Engaging individuals is what will lead them to affiliate with a synagogue as the institution that serves them, that meets their needs and those of their family. If synagogues continue to focus on the needs of the institution rather than on the needs of the individual, they will lose their dues-paying members and eventually become financially unviable. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel suggested to folks in the 1960s that they pray with their feet - and those prayers took them to places like the civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama. As a result of the actions of Rabbi Heschel and the influence of American political culture, American Jews - like most Americans - have been taught to vote with ~ Kerry M. Olitzky

There was no damn way we were ever gonna put our people into the ground again.
Beneath us was hell.
Heaven's above ...
... and that's where we all deserve to be. ~ Joshua Ortega

When I hear people clapping at the wrong times, I think that's great. We have got a listener that's not used to going to - we have got a new listener. ~ Joshua Bell

I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton. ~ Joshua Bell

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society. ~ Joshua Mohr

Sometimes in life there comes a time when one has to dance with the devil ~ Mwangala Kamwi Joshua

Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential. ~ Joshua Waitzkin

The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person. ~ Joshua Harris

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges. ~ Joshua Waitzkin