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

• The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Star
  • Budget
  • Presentation

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

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • inspirational
  • Start
  • Over

• 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

• Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • She
  • Friendship

• 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

• You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.

  

  Andrew Cherng
  • Business

• 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

• Reading is, hands-down, my favorite activity.

  

  Paulina Porizkova
  • Reading

• 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

• I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.

  

  P.D.Q. Bach

• The difficulty with all of these things comes around economics and how much of what you see as your baby you are willing to give up to be part of something.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Economics
  • Willing
  • Difficulty

• 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