Vernon Howard Quotes

Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.

Vernon Howard

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Business

• I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Story
  • Problems

• Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Hand
  • Focus

• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Trying

• I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Life
  • Dream
  • My Life

• I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• I always say I don't want to change anything in my life.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • Change
  • My Life

• I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Art
  • Think

• There is nothing more important in life than love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Better

• You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Music
  • Business
  • Know

• We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Different
  • Night

• But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• We too are also inspired by the life and example of Jose Marti, who is not only a Cuban and Latin American hero but justly honoured by all who struggle to be free.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • American
  • Free

• When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Music
  • History
  • Reality

• Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Mind
  • Lightning
  • Repartee

• Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

  

  Daniel Quinn
  • Life
  • World
  • Culture

• Margaret Sanger: Well I suppose a subject like that is really so personal that it is entirely up to the parents to decide, but from my view, I believe there should be no more babies in starving countries for the next ten years.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

• Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mind