Dan Poynter Quotes

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

Dan Poynter

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• In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Long
  • Country
  • High

• Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Perspective
  • Own
  • Content

• Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Name
  • Catholic

• I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Proud
  • Being

• But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Should

• I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Cancer

• In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Democracy
  • Capable
  • Cruel

• I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Hate
  • Working
  • Learned

• I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • News
  • Excited
  • Entertainment

• If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Long
  • Man

• A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Best

• I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Exercise
  • Everyday
  • Gym

• I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Dark
  • Laughter

• What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Kind

• Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Scholarship
  • Yale

• We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Wish
  • Environment

• That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of is we never compromised the rules, never were on probation, never had any major problems of any kind.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • School

• Safety should be a birthright.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Safety

• Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves.

  

  Mary Daly
  • Women
  • Free

• I'm saying that she (Whitney Houston) looks great for a 'singer'......the way Courtney Love is a 'singer'.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Great
  • She

• I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist's attorneys. I'd say, 'This is Jay-Z's attorney, we need to speak with Craig Kallman,' you know, owner of Atlantic, and they'd say, 'Right away,' and then I'd be like, 'Please just listen to my demo tape!'

  

  Benny Blanco
  • Cold

• The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all.

  

  Plato
  • Patient
  • Consider
  • Physician

• If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

  

  Dan Poynter
  • Work
  • Performance
  • Criticize