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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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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I already know what boxers do; I've been in it all my life. I know what they do, and I know how they prepare.
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Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
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And you get into that sort of cannibalistic feeling - all you want to do is go out there and, like I say, kill somebody. I'm going to get him. I'm going to kill'em. Not like you are going to put them into the ground after, but you just want to kill a guy.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
