Phillip Ressler > Phillip's Quotes

“Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.”
― Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.”
― Douglas Mawson

“The tranquillity of the water heightened the superb effects of this glacial world. Majestic tabular bergs whose crevices exhaled a vaporous azure; lofty spires, radiant turrets and splendid castles; honeycombed masses illumined by pale green light within whose fairy labyrinths the water washed and gurgled. Seals and penguins on magic gondolas were the silent denizens of this dreamy Venice. In the soft glamour of the midsummer midnight sun, we were possessed by a rapturous wonder—the rare thrill of unreality.”
― Douglas Mawson, The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

“First do it, then do it right, then do it better.”
― Addy Osmani

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbor that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him. A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man & Prison Writings

“The truth remains quiet inside us,floundering like a battered bird,desperately wanting to spread its
wings and fly away.
-TARA”
― Amita Trasi, The Color of our Sky

“It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us.
-MUKTA”
― Amita Trasi, The Color of our Sky

“There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.”
― W. James Antle, Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped

“As government grows beyond its constitutional boundaries, it really does devour freedom.”
― W. James Antle, Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped

“Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”
― Rossiter Worthington Raymond

“Dachau: A Chronicle,”
― Terrence Petty, Enemy of the People: The Untold Story of the Journalists Who Opposed Hitler

“You kill them with your success. Then they’ll have to kiss your motherfucking feet.”
― Tiffany Haddish, The Last Black Unicorn

“What a remarkable reminder that none of us can actually control what happens. We can only control the grace with which we react.”
― Amy Robach, Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held On to Hope, and Found Joy in My Darkest Hour

“As good as [most] real estate guys are as transactionalists, that's how poor they are as conceptualists,” says Sam Zell. “That's why they keep getting caught in oversupplies. Because what they do requires such a micro focus, their ability to then go macro is limited.”
― Vicky Ward, The Liar's Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons

“If you're looking for something more in life, you're likely to find it in something less.”
― Jeff Yeager, The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means

“Cheapskates...are too self-confident - and frankly too smart - to spend money on things they don't need and probably don't even want, simply to impress others or just because they can.”
― Jeff Yeager, The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means

“no task is so simple that, with sufficient effort, it can’t be made complicated—this”
― Jeff Yeager, The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means

“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”
― Charles Schwab

“A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.”
― Charles Schwab

“Real reading is a lonely activity.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
― Harold Bloom

“We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.”
― Harold Bloom

“Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.”
― Donald J. Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

“I want good people to come here from all over the world, but I want them to do so legally. We can expedite the process, we can reward achievement and excellemce, but we have to respect the legal process. And those people who take advantage of the system and come here illegally should never enjoy the benefits of being a resident--or citizen--of this nation. So I am against any path to citizenship for undocumented workers or anyone else who is in this country illegaly. They should--and need to--go home and get in line.”
― Donald J. Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

“They may ignore your achievements.
They may ridicule your vision.
They may speak poorly about you.

They will win, if you lose confidence.”
― Vala Afshar

“The release and joy that come from luxury are only felt when you earned it.”
― Arden Rose, Almost Adulting: All You Need to Know to Get It Together

“Being completely closed off to a philosophy or lifestyle is not a very adult-y thing to do. In fact, it’s an incredibly childish way to look at the world.”
― Arden Rose, Almost Adulting: All You Need to Know to Get It Together

“Realize that you can’t let the feelings of others make you live less.”
― Arden Rose, Almost Adulting: All You Need to Know to Get It Together

“During mission planning, we had intelligence concerning dogs that might impede our goal and were part of the target’s contingencies. The exact method used to neutralize aggressive dogs in the field is classified information. However, Special Ops has some really incredible dogs. In fact, during the raid to kill Osama bin Laden, the highly trained men of SEAL Team Six had with them a uniquely trained dog as part of the mission. SEAL canines are not your standard bomb-sniffing dogs. The dog on the bin Laden mission was specially trained to jump from planes and rappel from helicopters while attached to its handler. The dog wore ballistic body armor, had a head-mounted infrared (night-vision) camera, and wore earpieces to take commands from the handler. The dog also had reinforced teeth, capped with titanium. I would not want to try the techniques this book recommends on this dog. Thank God he’s on our side.”
― Cade Courtley, SEAL Survival Guide: A Navy SEAL's Secrets to Surviving Any Disaster