Quotes

One of the fondest memories of my Granddad Nelson was trading quotes regularly over email. Sadly I lost the email archive when I went on my mission, but it has continued to be an interest of mine. I hope you enjoy my collection of quotes. A bit of everything from religion to politics to leadership.

If you can't intelligently argue for both sides of an issue, you don't understand the issue well enough to argue for either.

Do not depend only on theory if your life is at stake.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

Show me a completely smooth operation and I’ll show you someone who’s covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

The world is already so full of conflict. If we want to create more peace in the world, we have to choose not to take things personally and instead respond with understanding, compassion, connection, and peace.

Your mind is not a computer; it is a response-tool keyed to whatever your senses display.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.

One thing is certain:

The commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness.

I witness that the Savior knows and is mindful of each of us one by one and name by name.

How easy it was to produce scapegoats and how readily they were accepted! This was especially true when the alternative was to find yourself either guilty or stupid or both.