Harold B. Lee Quotes

The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential.

Harold B. Lee

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• Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Hope

• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Hope
  • Smile
  • Seeing

• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Rules
  • Old

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Find

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Guy
  • You
  • Living

• Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Pain
  • Makes
  • Chicken

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • American
  • Better
  • Healing

• One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Art
  • Eyes
  • Pencil

• I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Positive
  • Negativity

• I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Women
  • She
  • Success

• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  

  Imran Khan
  • Time
  • Children
  • War

• I am an artist who works with Lego.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Artist
  • Works
  • Lego

• Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Knowledge
  • Best
  • Player

• I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Think
  • Career

• Tragedy makes you grow up.

  

  Jane Campion
  • Up

• In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy.

  

  Brad Feld
  • World
  • Interesting

• Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will lead us to a planet without countries, without wars, without patriotism, without religions, without poverty, where we will be able to share the world. Actually, maybe I am not sure I truly believe that I believe this, but I do want to believe that I believe this.

  

  Carlo Rovelli
  • World
  • Believe
  • Long

• The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • Potential
  • Waste