William DeWitt Hyde Quotes

Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.

William DeWitt Hyde

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• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Child

• Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Important
  • Value

• As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

  

  Don Bluth
  • Job
  • Emotional
  • Journey

• Eddie George was outstanding early.

  

  Jeff Fisher

• Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.

  

  Alexei Navalny
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

  

  Dwight Gooden

• Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.

  

  Mary Roach
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• I've known Roger Ailes for 15 years, and I have been treated with the utmost professionalism and respect.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Respect

• The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

  

  Max Muller
  • Family
  • Bible
  • Paradise

• I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.

  

  Neil Burger
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Homeless

• There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

  

  John Bunyan

• The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Important

• On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • Business
  • Future
  • Fear

• On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.

  

  Kay Lenz
  • Food
  • Birthday

• Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about.

  

  David Rose
  • Time
  • Important

• Honesty is most important, and it's difficult when you're young and single and sort of figuring out your own life.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Life
  • Important
  • Single

• Every woman actress is somewhat vain, and I am, too. You really have to take care of yourself.

  

  Sibel Kekilli
  • Care
  • Actress
  • Vain

• Of course, when you're doing something that's unexpected, people are going to have a very specific point of view about it, but I think it's all good to have a healthy debate about who Hitchcock was and what that means to people. He means a lot of different things to a lot of different people because the films are so great. If the movies were not great, no one would be bothering to show any interest.

  

  Sacha Gervasi
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I do think there are trends in your life once youve been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.

  

  Merritt Wever
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Teenager

• Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is the worst.

  

  W. Kamau Bell
  • Comedy

• Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.

  

  William DeWitt Hyde
  • Thinking
  • Happens
  • Active