#point

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#experiences #gift #go #inside #know

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point. ↗

— Tom Sizemore

#i #just #point #seriously #take

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#ball #band #bomb #carry #certain

I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training. ↗

— Kate Smith

#continually #done #embarrassed #example #i

I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#cut #did #disappointed #final #final cut

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#attacks #become #bitterness #choice #disappointment

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#absolute truth #accepted #always #disappointment #doubt

If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#because #face #god #less #lives

There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up. ↗

— Scott Stapp

#any #broke #collaboration #comes #creatively

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. ↗

— George Steiner

#event #every #honing #impact #individual