Lewis Howes Quotes

If you come across as boring or monotone, you're going to lose your audience.

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• Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Amazing
  • Fans
  • Cynical

• I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Failure
  • Impossible

• A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Party

• I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Right

• I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Society
  • Most

• If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Want
  • Stop

• Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Characters
  • Get
  • Noticed

• I've got a very interesting background.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Interesting
  • Got
  • Background

• In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Future
  • Past
  • View

• Taking my bike out and riding the bike path along Lake Shore Drive, that's one of the great experiences in my life. And I hope to do it as long as I can.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Teach

• Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.

  

  Kaskade
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Voice

• Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Good
  • Society
  • Good Times

• I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. My father, before I was born, had been gassed in the first World War, and I wanted to know why there were wars, why people hurt each other, why we couldn't get along together, and what made people tick. That's why I started to write stories.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I think it's pathetic that a court of law cannot be in a vacuum of the legal system, without the influence of the public threatening to do great bodily harm to people and property. It's really a pathetic statement for our country.

  

  Mark Fuhrman
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.

  

  David Newman
  • Childhood
  • Baseball

• I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Drawing
  • Anybody

• I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Kids
  • Weird
  • Summer

• If you come across as boring or monotone, you're going to lose your audience.

  

  Lewis Howes