Quotes about Reflection
As I look back now I wonder how I was ever able to sell anything. I lost years of my life in scrapping and arguing. I keep my mouth shut now. It pays.
— Dale Carnegie
I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.
— Dale Carnegie
I am ashamed to realize that I never really learned to live until I feared I was going to die.
— Dale Carnegie
It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
— Dale Carnegie
It was an important day in my life when at last I understood that if he needed forty days in the wilderness at one point, I very likely could use three or four.
— Dallas Willard
The command is Do no work. Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. Accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.
— Dallas Willard
He said, "The main thing that you bring the church is the person that you become, and that's what everybody will see; that's what will get reproduced; that's what people will believe. Arrange your life so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
— Dallas Willard
If the Bible says something once, notice it but don't count it as a fundamental principle. If it says it twice, think about it twice. If it is repeated many times, then dwell on it and seek to understand it. What you want to believe from the Bible is its message on the whole and use it as a standard for interpreting the peripheral passages.
— Dallas Willard
It is much more important to cultivate the quiet, inward space of a constant listening than to always be approaching God for specific direction.
— Dallas Willard
The ultimate freedom we have as individuals is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon and think about. By think we mean all the ways in which we are aware of things, including our memories, perceptions, and beliefs. The focus of your thoughts significantly affects everything else that happens in your life and evokes the feelings that frame your world and motivate your actions.
— Dallas Willard
How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions of Asia, South America and Africa were led to believe that the best we can hope for from The Way of Christ is the level of Christianity visible in Europe and America today
— Dallas Willard
When we see Jesus as he is, we must turn away or else shamelessly adore him.
— Dallas Willard