Dan Howell Quotes

Even if you Can't Change the World, you Can Change Individuals

Dan Howell

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Time
  • World
  • She

• Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • Choose
  • Luxury

• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Sympathy

• As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • Long
  • Building

• It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • World
  • Done
  • Success

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • War
  • Dark

• From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Thinking
  • American

• In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Ego
  • Personal

• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Change
  • Paradox

• I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • World
  • Myself
  • Find

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
  • World
  • Organization
  • Parent

• It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• I’m a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

  

  Byron Katie
  • Reality
  • Spiritual

• We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • World
  • Money
  • Rest

• Bitcoin is inherently international, and one of its great promises is it enables cross-border payments in a more efficient way.

  

  Fred Ehrsam
  • Great

• People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Reality
  • Movies

• Even if you Can't Change the World, you Can Change Individuals

  

  Dan Howell
  • World
  • Change
  • Individuals