Vernon Howard Quotes

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Vernon Howard

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• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Interest
  • Bookstores

• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics

• A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • God
  • Men
  • Service

• If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Successful

• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Character

• All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Human

• Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Important
  • Women
  • American

• I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Changes

• I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friend
  • Fire
  • Forest

• I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Purpose
  • Hustler

• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Worth
  • Tax

• Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Long
  • Enough
  • Literature

• Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long
  • Respect
  • Mad

• That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Music
  • Happy

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Singer
  • Got

• Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Art
  • Quality

• Not all guys that look a certain way or dress a certain way or act a certain way are the same.

  

  M. Leighton
  • Guy
  • Looks
  • Dresses

• Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Understanding
  • Silence
  • Trap

• What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Jesus
  • Failure
  • Emotions

• I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

  

  Frank Press

• A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Understanding
  • Emotions
  • Negative