On resting in between reps: It varies with the length of the set. 5s or fewer get a breath to reset. Longer sets might take 2 breaths. During the last few reps of a true 20RM squat, just do what Jesus tells you. Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the last day of the program, he asked if he could work in.
My doctrine is as I've described, which is confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.
You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you can keep updating your plan.
Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm.
Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.
And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.
We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.
I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves.
You have to be confident, if you're not confident you might as well go home.
Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
When the fun goes out of getting dressed, you might as well be dead.
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.
I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself.
There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.
Let's agree then. . . if you're about to come to a conclusion, you'll head off in another direction. You might even find your own voice.
I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.
The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.