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'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

  

  Meek Mill
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• 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

• If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • People
  • Smile
  • Checks

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what the pitcher is trying to do with the ball.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.

  

  Joseph Altuzarra
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Pet

• I've never been the sort of person to walk into a room and have *clicks fingers* 50 women want to sleep with me, ok, and suddenly you walk across a stage and you have a video clip and you know girls want to go out with you and think you're beautiful!

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• 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