Vernon Howard Quotes
Constantly ask yourself, 'What level is above this one?' This makes things different. Take personal problems for example. Problems are not solved by choosing between this and that. The very need to choose indicates misunderstanding. Problems are solved by outgrowing both this and that.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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I did the coffee house thing - we have coffee houses where people play, or we used to - and when I was 14, I started there. Just played all the time. Every weekend I had a show, or every Thursday. Open-mic nights, the whole thing.
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The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and commerce is certainly a force that could add value for Afghanis.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.
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I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
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Constantly ask yourself, 'What level is above this one?' This makes things different. Take personal problems for example. Problems are not solved by choosing between this and that. The very need to choose indicates misunderstanding. Problems are solved by outgrowing both this and that.
