Vernon Howard Quotes
It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.
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The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
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Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
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My dad spent most of the '50s and early '60s actually acting as sort of an advance man for the Justice Department, as a civil rights lawyer. So it was actually reading his papers after he passed away a few years ago that first started me thinking about this... What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man?
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
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It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
