Vernon Howard Quotes

The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.

Vernon Howard

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• Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Car

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • True
  • Man
  • Silence

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Life
  • Know
  • Parent

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Time
  • Famous

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Sports

• There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Quality
  • Difference
  • More

• I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • School
  • Age
  • Working

• I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Intelligent
  • Living
  • Capable

• You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Travel
  • Language

• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Spirit
  • Vote
  • Suffrage

• Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Family
  • Doing
  • Percent

• Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sports
  • Involved
  • Activities

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Good
  • Work
  • Growth

• Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie.

  

  Barney Kessel
  • Help
  • Realised
  • Showed

• If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Time
  • Power

• Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Wisdom
  • Clarity
  • Breeze

• I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all.

  

  Alicia Sacramone
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • Self
  • Taste
  • Righteousness

• The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Power
  • Wisdom