Top 100 Butterfield Quotes
#2. When you're in the White House," Butterfield said, "everyone lies. You can sort of get feeling immune.
Bob Woodward
#3. Justin Butterfield of Illinois, a Federalist-turned-Whig, said of the Mexican-American War, said, "I opposed one war and it ruined me. From now on I am for war, pestilence and famine.
Michael S. Green
#4. Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.
Rick Danko
#5. A prominent Chicago politician, Justin Butterfield, asked if he was against the Mexican War, replied: no, I opposed one War [the War of 1812]. That was enough for me. I am now perpetually in favor of war, pestilence and famine.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#9. There are a lot of things that Slack gives you that email doesn't when you think about internal use. Switching to Slack from email for internal communication gives you a lot more transparency.
Stewart Butterfield
#10. Temptation yielded to is lust deified (My Utmost for His Highest, September 17 entry). Temptation comes in many forms, but it is always personal, uncannily tailor-made for our individual moral weakness, and it takes aim at God's character, seeking to ransack our faith.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#11. When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.
Asa Butterfield
#12. I think it's always difficult no matter how similar your characters are to yourself to get into that mindset, because however much they are similar to you, they're not you.
Asa Butterfield
#18. I know who I am and I like being me. As much as I care about David, I don't want to be with someone who doesn't accept the whole me.
Robyn Butterfield Buttars
#20. A life outside of Christ is both hard and frightening; a life in Christ has hard edges and dark valleys, but it is purposeful even when painful.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#21. They said I was splitting hairs and losing my objectivity. I reminded them that I was a postmodernist who didn't believe in objectivity.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#23. I'm going to end up with a lot more money than I feel like I'm entitled to, given how hard I work.
Stewart Butterfield
#24. I learned that we must obey in faith before we feel better or different. At this time, though, obeying in faith, to me, felt like throwing myself off a cliff. Faith that endures is heroic, not sentimental. And
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#25. Bing: You're a heel ... a low down rotten heel ... anything that doesn't go your way, anything that you can't have you destroy.
John O'Hara
#26. Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.
Asa Butterfield
#27. There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.
Stewart Butterfield
#28. If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.
Herbert Butterfield
#30. Russell Moore puts it best: "None of us likes to think we were adopted. We assume we're natural-born children, with a right to all of this grace, to all of this glory."1 But
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#31. It's hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.
Stewart Butterfield
#33. Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.
Stewart Butterfield
#35. When key users told us something wasn't working, we fixed it - immediately.
Stewart Butterfield
#36. From the outside, Yahoo was extremely successful. It was making money; it was still bigger than Google. But when I got there, I learned what a disaster of a company looks like from the inside. There were a lot of vice presidents, and it was basically a turf battle between them.
Stewart Butterfield
#37. A sin is treason against a Holy God. A mistake is a logical misstep. Sin lurks in our heart and grabs us by the throat to do its bidding.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#39. Email will probably be around for many decades to come. It's hard to say what will happen 20 years from now, but email has been around for decades, and it will likely be around for decades more.
Stewart Butterfield
#40. The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.
Herbert Butterfield
#41. I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.
Paul Butterfield
#42. There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#43. For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.
Stewart Butterfield
#44. I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.
Asa Butterfield
#45. For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.
Stewart Butterfield
#47. You have to figure out what conversion means in your case. What does retention mean? What does activation mean? For every business, it's going to be slightly different because of the nature of the product and the kinds of people who use it.
Stewart Butterfield
#49. I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.
Stewart Butterfield
#50. If you're not hiring from some groups of the population, then you're obviously missing out.
Stewart Butterfield
#54. It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.
Herbert Butterfield
#56. My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.
Asa Butterfield
#57. Because of our fallen natures, we expect that we will be repenting of sin until glory. But repentance is not simply proof of failure. It is, more importantly, a sign of God's hand upon us. It is a conversion proof, as only a saved person can repent of sin.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#58. But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
Herbert Butterfield
#59. If this was a book written by men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit, then its admonitions about sin were not applied cultural phobia.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#60. is, in the words of The Westminster Shorter Catechism, "any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God" (Q. 14).6 Sin is mutiny, either by its omission ("want of conformity to") or its commission ("transgression of the law of God").
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#61. Just like a dancer's body finds its points and an equestrian incorporates her body weight into the movement of the horse, the Christian learns how to melt her will into God's.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#62. If the Lord calls us to be a bridge, we have to learn to bear in his strength the weight. And it hurts. And it's good. And the Lord equips.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#63. How do I judge my own sincerity? The saving grace of salvation is located in a holy and electing God, and a sacrificing, suffering, and obedient Savior. Stakes this high can never rest on my sincerity.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#64. I think that churches would be places of greater intimacy and growth in Christ if people stopped lying about what we need, what we fear, where we fail, and how we sin.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#65. For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.
Asa Butterfield
#66. The love of Christ for his people is not based upon any worthiness within them, nor should your love toward your wife be conditioned upon her actions and your judgment as to whether or not she has earned your love.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#67. I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me.
Stewart Butterfield
#70. I tend to be a lot more honest and transparent with employees than most bosses are. But I've had people tell me - even those who love working with me - that I'm terrifying, which is hard for me to imagine.
Stewart Butterfield
#72. It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.
Stewart Butterfield
#73. We are only righteous in Christ and in him alone. But that's a hard pill to swallow, especially if you give yourself kudos for good choices.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#74. The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.
Herbert Butterfield
#75. People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo.
Stewart Butterfield
#76. God is not crushing the dreams of parenthood when he deals the card of infertility. God is asking you to crush the idolatry of pregnancy, to be sure. And, he is saying: Dream My dreams, not yours!
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#77. Political advocacy plastered next to Bible verses makes me anxious. I'm not a betting woman, but if I was I'd say that Jesus is not a member of either political party.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#78. Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.
Stewart Butterfield
#80. I came to believe that my job was not to receive and critique a sermon but to dig into it, to seize its power, to participate with its message, and to steal its fruit. I learned by sitting under Ken Smith's preaching that the easily offended are missing the point.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#81. I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.
Stewart Butterfield
#82. The experience of being able to search back over all your team's communications for, in our case, millions of messages, is super-valuable. But you don't know what that's like until you actually have it.
Stewart Butterfield
#84. Stepping into God's story means abandoning a deeply held desire to make meaning of our own lives on our own terms based on the preciousness of our own feelings.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#85. In Slack, you create channels to discuss different topics. For a small group of people, those channels are relatively easy to manage and navigate.
Stewart Butterfield
#86. Answers come after questions, not before. Answers answer questions in specific and pointed ways, not in sweeping generalizations.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#87. Christians always seemed like bad thinkers to me. It seemed that they could maintain their worldview only because they were sheltered from the world's real problems, like the material structures of poverty and violence and racism.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#88. What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.
Stewart Butterfield
#89. One very difficult aspect of sin is that my sin never feels like sin to me. My sin feels like life to me, plain and simple. My heart is an idol factory, and my mind is an excuse-making factory.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#92. I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A ... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home.
Stewart Butterfield
#93. I have a couple of things I do to clear my head when I need it. The first is exercise, the kind of exercise that makes me lie on the floor afterward gasping for breath and wonder if I'm actually going to be able to breathe enough to not die. The other one is playing music.
Stewart Butterfield
#94. Pride puffs one up with a false sense of independence. Proud people always feel that they can live independently from God and from other people. Proud people feel entitled to do what they want when they want to.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#96. Real conversion gives you Christ's company as you walk through the valley of the shadow of death. Indeed, the fall made everything - including my deepest desires - fall. And this happened under God's providential eye, not behind his back.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#97. Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.
Herbert Butterfield
#98. We have decided that we are not inconvenienced by inconvenience. The needs of children come up unexpectedly. We are sure that the Good Samaritan had other plans that fateful day.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#99. Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.
Herbert Butterfield
#100. At the time that I was struggling with these questions, I was reading and teaching from Is There a Meaning in this Text?
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
