Max Lucado Quotes

I have been extremely cautious in selecting my films.

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

I've always been a little bit cautious about what projects I step into. I don't mean to be dramatic, but I feel that every single thing you do in life, you give a piece of your soul, and I want to be responsible with that.

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

I'm quite good at knowing, 'This isn't right for me,' or, 'That person will be really good at singing that.'

I choose my roles carefully.

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

I used to make snap judgments, moved quickly. It's more important to be thoughtful, think of the consequences of your decisions.

I think it is important to time yourself to make the right choices. It's not responsible to go ahead and say a 'yes' or 'no' on a whim.

I've never just said things recklessly without thinking about it or talking to people about it. I always go back to my people and talk to them about it.

I can't grab anything that comes my way just because it's from a big banner.

You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He’d have no one to use

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

God knows just the place where you'll be placed. He has a barren living room in desperate need of warmth and joy. A corner of the world needs some color. He selected you with that place in mind.

I've spent years saying no to things. It's important to be selective with both projects and partners.

We may forget him, but God will never forget us. We're forever on his mind and in his plans.

How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.