Brian Houston Quotes

The spirit of those around you will stick to you like glue. Be careful of wrong associations and what you allow to cling to you. Not everyone who appears friendly is a friend.

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• I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Little

• Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • God
  • Heart
  • Memory

• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach. I'm always going to have a training center, always going to work with guys that are looking for some input and want help. I love commentating, and that's something I can always go back to and enjoy doing.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Work
  • Love
  • Help

• It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Free
  • Constitution

• We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Believe
  • Power
  • American

• A people must have dignity and identity.

  

  Andrew Goodman
  • People
  • Identity

• The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Important
  • Moving

• There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn't know existed.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Diversity
  • Greed

• I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

  

  David Russell
  • Up
  • Bad

• The deconstructed, postmodern pizza has been with us for ages, and the fact is that pretty much every ingredient in the world has been used as a pizza topping and liked by somebody, somewhere.

  

  John Lanchester
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Pizza

• When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different voices.

  

  Lennie James
  • Different
  • American

• Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Decision
  • Mistake
  • Senior

• Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

  

  Bill Toomey
  • Value
  • Journey

• Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith

• I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Mind
  • School
  • Sex

• Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,… he turned to his friend and said, 'Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?'

  

  Plutarch
  • People
  • Friend
  • Opinion

• To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Wish

• I am hopeful that both India and U.S.A. would be able to expand their counter-terror partnership through wider intelligence sharing and effective coordination.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • India
  • Terror
  • Coordination

• The number one cause of unfulfilled potential is never deciding that NOW matters more than any other time in your life.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Time
  • Motivational

• The spirit of those around you will stick to you like glue. Be careful of wrong associations and what you allow to cling to you. Not everyone who appears friendly is a friend.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Friend
  • Spirit