Vernon Howard Quotes
People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.
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Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.
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The biggest problem almost all comics face is not piracy or demographics or any of that nonsense: it's obscurity.
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Listing What You Have: Internalize the attitude that regardless of how many things you do not have, you can still be happy and grateful if you keep your focus on what you do have. Make a list of possessions, talents, and good qualities you have and whenever you catch yourself becoming obsessed with something you lack, review your list.
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As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
