Donald Miller
Donald Miller
Donald "Don" Milleris a best-selling American author and public speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee who focuses on Christian spirituality as "an explanation for beauty, meaning, and the human struggle"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 August 1971
CountryUnited States of America
homecoming students
We will look at what students want Hood's homecoming to be.
jobs character home
Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.
beautiful home thinking
If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen. The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.
travel home leaving
Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
england far north snow
The significant snow didn't get as far north into New England as anticipated.
beautiful meaningful running
You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
becoming city consumers educating mexicans mexico serious starting themselves
Mexicans are educating themselves and becoming serious consumers of wine, and sommeliers in Mexico City are starting to take notice.
fund funding help kick money problem unless
I have a real problem with (solely funding the program) unless the townships kick in some money to help fund it,
bands million music
There is something more than music here, and only one in a million bands can get to this place,
role-models males roles
We have to have positive male role models.
book giving people
I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.
issues abortion important
If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.
website ifs havens
If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see.
kids america church
There are about 360,000 churches in America, so we could mentor a million kids within a short period of time if everyone signed on, which, of course, is a pipedream, but we're going to reach toward that.