Lewis Howes Quotes

I often speak publicly, and when I do, I also get to listen to other presenters. The most memorable are the ones that hit an emotional chord with a tight story and a punch line. No fluff. Keep it creative and concise. Greatness exists in quality, not quantity.

Lewis Howes

• Quality
• Emotional
• Greatness

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• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • World
  • Today
  • Light

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
  • End
  • Seeing

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Up
  • World
  • House

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • Children
  • Future

• I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Business
  • Rules
  • Fair

• I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Myself
  • Act
  • Others

• Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Face
  • Exciting
  • Brand

• Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Never
  • Pull
  • I Wanted

• I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Stories
  • Nothing
  • Selection

• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Live
  • Day
  • Green

• The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Collage

• The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

  

  John Cheever
  • Life

• I often speak publicly, and when I do, I also get to listen to other presenters. The most memorable are the ones that hit an emotional chord with a tight story and a punch line. No fluff. Keep it creative and concise. Greatness exists in quality, not quantity.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Quality
  • Emotional
  • Greatness