F. F. Bruce Quotes

Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.

Be like water, my friend.

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

Either push your limits or die.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

I was surprised when Nixon passed the test and showed up in heaven, but, I guess Hitler threw off the curve for our century.

We can control our lives by controlling our perceptions.

The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.

No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.

It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.

Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

But to those who kept saying "It can't be done," Never are the victories Or the honors won. But, rather, By the believing, doing kind, While the doubters Watched from far behind.

All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility.

I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.

Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.

Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do

Now that we can do anything what will we do?

The song and the land are one.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium.

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.

If I just stuck to pot I might have found out what a drag being an aging hipster actually was.

To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.

Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.