Richard Leider quotes

“Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves.”
-- Richard Leider

Source : Richard J. Leider (2008). “The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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“One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.”
-- Richard Leider

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“People don't choose their calling, it chooses them.”
-- Richard Leider

Source : Richard J. Leider (2008). “Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.211, ReadHowYouWant.com

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“Information does not change behavior. Practices do.”
-- Richard Leider

Source : Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Richard Leider (2007). “The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader”, p.11, Blue Snake Books

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“Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things.”
-- Richard Leider

Source : Richard Leider, David A. Shapiro (2004). “Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose”, p.131, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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“Purpose is the quality we choose to shape our lives around.”
-- Richard Leider

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“The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.”
-- Richard Leider

Source : Richard J. Leider (2008). “The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

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“When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."”

“I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.”

“I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Blaire, This teardrop represents many things. The tears I know you’ve shed over holding your mother’s piece of satin. The tears you’ve shed over each loss you’ve experienced. But it also represents the tears we’ve both shed as we’ve felt the little life inside you begin to move. The tears I’ve shed over the fact I’ve been given someone like you to love. I never imagined anyone like you Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you I’m humbled that you chose me. This is your something blue. I love you, Rush”

“Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.”

“As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society. It was not good for Man at first to be alone; his nature is social, having various Affections, Propensities and Passions, which respect Society, and cannot be indulged without a social Intercourse.”

“Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.”

“We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....”

“If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing) about ourselves, each other and our world. This is because the most important truths about us and them, is that we have been created by the Lord, and utterly depend upon him for our continued existence.”

Source : Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.217, Oxford University Press