Vernon Howard Quotes

You are not really bothered by what others think of you. You are bothered by what you think of yourself.

Vernon Howard

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• If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • You
  • Wish
  • Forget

• It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Laugh

• We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Start
  • Feet
  • Oil

• Heartbreak is hard, but you find more and more things to be grateful for every day.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Day
  • Find
  • Grateful

• When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Couple
  • Saying
  • Bridges

• I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Study
  • Crime
  • Loneliness

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Call
  • Negativity
  • Therapist

• Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Child
  • Moment

• Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Small
  • Me
  • Small Things

• I had plenty of vices growing up.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Long
  • Positive

• Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Choice

• ...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.

  

  Jack London
  • Men
  • Strong

• The jaws' hooked clamp and fangsNot to be changed at this date;A life subdued to its instrument.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Life

• To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith

• …my two chronic diseases of gluttony and satyriasis…

  

  Anthony Burgess

• The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Children
  • Future
  • Parents

• In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Revolution

• If I'm nominated for Grammy I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a great closing, for me, a great closing to a great career.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Stage
  • Careers
  • Closing

• Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

  

  Mark Kelly
  • Time
  • School
  • Flying

• He viewed humour as a relaxing introduction to many situations. 'It is, of course, completely inappropriate in some... but in the end, you know, if you were serious in this job you'd go mad.'

  

  David Lange
  • Job
  • Serious
  • Mad

• I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

  

  Chely Wright
  • Up
  • Kids
  • House

• You are not really bothered by what others think of you. You are bothered by what you think of yourself.

  

  Vernon Howard