Vernon Howard Quotes
Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.Vernon Howard
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Orison Swett Marden -
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
Barbara Walters -
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
Ice T -
Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
Gary Hamel -
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Walter Dean Myers
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
Sam Yagan -
I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
Kapil Dev -
I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
Laura Prepon -
I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
Vera Farmiga -
I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
Laura Linney -
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
Walter Kirn
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America is huge.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
Ian Mckellen -
In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
Daniel Barenboim -
Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
Maggie Hassan -
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
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All my players must be ready because, sooner or later, I will need them.
Claudio Ranieri -
And weeping fast as she had breathJanet implored us, 'Wake her from her sleep!'And would not be instructed in how deepWas the forgetful kingdom of death.
John Crowe Ransom -
My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.
Alan Alda -
There is no business in the world - I don't care what it is, whether it's I.T. or manufacturing - that does not have what I may refer to as a blended resource base. You have high-end work. You have engineering work. You have some local knowledge you require. Then, you have some very low-cost work to be done.
Anand Mahindra -
Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
Vernon Howard