WN Stanley Quotes

Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.

Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come his way have probably been so described by their authors.

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

You can't influence people you refuse to associate with.

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.

As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash

I can't make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.

Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.

People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.

Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it

Courage is essential to leadership.

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.

You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.

Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made.

Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.

Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.

Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.

I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.

The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.

Jesus is our Advocate before God.

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.

The command to be free is a double bind

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.