T.R. Patrick Quotes
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.
The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.
Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.
I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.
The size of your body is just right. The only question is whether you're big enough inside.
By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.
It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.
I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.
It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.
Motivation is a battle for the heart, not just an appeal to the mind. Passion is always an expression of the soul.
I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?
How your customers learn about your product is part of your product. The medium is the message.
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.
He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.
People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.
If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities
Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.
At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.
The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.
Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).
Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.
It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.
When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.
Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.