Ed Smith Quotes

Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.

Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.

Inspiration is finding something that excites you.

God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil.

Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The Vampire Diaries is the story of Elena falling in love with Damon.

The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

Before you can ever inspire, motivate, or influence, you must connect first.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

Many people look but they do not see.

A partner can encourage you, maybe even stop you from falling, but they can't get you to the top. That's entirely up to you.

The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

Love as hard as you can, at all times

One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

Dare to believe, and then dare to speak, and you shall have whatsoever you say if you doubt not.

Above all nations is humanity.

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.

When ever I have a Problem, I just sing. Then I know my voice is a lot worse then my Problem.

Perhaps we don't want to come face to face with the unsurrendered areas of our lives. We like our lives just as they are, even if it is less than God's best.

As long as you and I are still breathing, we have a purpose to serve

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.

Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.

I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness.

PR is performance recognition

Whatever God has done for other men, He can do for me.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

The Book of Mormon is true, just what it purports to be, and for this testimony I expect to give an account in the day of judgment.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Great faith is the product of great fights.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.

Salvation could not come to the world without the mediation of Jesus Christ.

Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.