Tom Vilsack Quotes

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

Tom Vilsack

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• Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Important
  • Giving

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Up
  • War
  • Giving

• Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Men
  • Women
  • Live

• The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Gratitude
  • Blessings

• When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • World
  • Work
  • Giving

• My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Giving
  • Dad
  • Thought

• I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Career

• 'Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Destiny

• Giving up at something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Growing

• Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Important
  • May
  • Job

• Support for charities takes many forms. Some people give their money, some their spare time. I give my name and my voice. We give what we can to make a difference to the people and issues that matter to us. But what's most important, especially for celebrities, is giving our genuine commitment.

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Great
  • Giving

• We understand bringing girls into the tech space is about giving them skills to create social impact and change in their community.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Giving
  • Community
  • Space

• I tried to go to college in the U.K. a couple of times, but at that point, I think I was a little disillusioned with education. It wasn't giving me what I wanted it to. I needed freedom to create and do the things that I wanted to explore, and it wasn't really doing that: it was still very prescriptive.

  

  Billy Howle
  • Freedom
  • Giving
  • Education

• At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Giving
  • Debt
  • Buying

• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Chance

• When I was a kid and L.S.U. lost, you didn't read the papers until, like, Thursday.

  

  James Carville
  • Lost
  • Thursday

• But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Wife
  • Enemy
  • Forgive

• The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Giving
  • Complicated
  • Plates