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1 " People who can't be questioned often end up doing questionable things. "
― Jon Acuff , Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck
2 " Fear would have told the Wright brothers not to fly. Fear would have told Rosa Parks to change seats. Fear would have told Steve Jobs that people hate touchscreens. "
― Jon Acuff , Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters
3 " In order to survive, I came up with a five-step secret to getting it all done. If you're busy too, feel free to use it:1. Admit that you can't possibly get it all done. "
4 " Intentions are ambitious liars. "
5 " Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed. "
― Jon Acuff , Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job
6 " A dream you don’t have to fight for isn’t a dream—it’s a nap. One changes your afternoon. The other changes your world. Keep fighting. "
― Jon Acuff
7 " Pastors are starting to get wily. When people tell my friend, 'I'm not being fed,' he replies, 'I'm prefectly happy to spoon feed my one-year-old. But if I'm still spoon-feeding him when he's five, we've got a problem. Here's a fork. Feed yourself. "
8 " Sometimes when jerks become Christians, it's like a bully learning karate. Instead of having Christ transform our hearts and attitudes, we now have a new method with which to beat you up....what was once just 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion' is now 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion in the name of God. "
9 " I want the peace in knowing that is wasn’t for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control. "
10 " How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, author Michael J. Gelb "
11 " That's why I always keep a handful of silver glitter in my pockets. If I get pushed into a conversational corner I throw the glitter into the air, and while the person I'm talking to is distracted, I run away. An additional benefit is that I look like a cool magician, so I've got that going for me. "
12 " Goals you refuse to chase don't disappear — they become ghosts that haunt you. Do you know why strangers rage at each other online and are so quick to be angry and offended these days? Because their passion has no other outlet. When you refuse to deal in joy, you don't quit being emotional; you just funnel all that fury somewhere else. Many a troll was born from the heartache of a goal he dared not finish. Maybe a troll is just someone who lost to perfectionism so many times he gave up on his own goals and decided to tear down someone else's. "
― Jon Acuff , Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done
13 " You don't need to go back in time to be awesome; you just have to start right now. Regretting that you didn't start earlier is a great distraction from moving on your dream today, and the reality is that today is earlier than tomorrow. "
14 " If you’re going to risk and maybe fail, fail at something that matters. Fail gloriously so that even in failure, lives change. "
15 " Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle, or your middle to someone else's end. Don't compare the start of your second quarter of life to someone else's third quarter. "
16 " 90 percent perfect and shared with the world always changes more lives than 100 percent perfect and stuck in your head. "
17 " God found Gideon in a hole.He found Joseph in a prison.He found Daniel in a lion’s den.He has a curious habit of showing up in the midst of trouble, not the absence. Where the world sees failure, God sees future.Next time you feel unqualified to be used by God remember this, he tends to recruit from the pit, not the pedestal. "
18 " I don't want you to wake up at sixty-five and realize, 'I spend forty of my best years doing something that just funded my life. "
19 " People are mistaken when they think chasing your dream is a selfish thing to do. As if perhaps being average is an act of humility. As if perhaps wasting the talents you were given is proof that you're a considerate individual.It's not. "
20 " Regardless of what you want to do or who you are, fear will always see you as wholly unqualified for anything you ever dream or attempt. "
