Lewis Howes Quotes
As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football locker room, he had two choices: think of the child as his own and call police. Or not. He chose the latter.
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As a matter of fact, that was a bit of a problem for me at the beginning of my career - the problem of identification. In The Conversation I played a character who was gay, so nobody recognised me from American Graffiti. When I did Apocalypse Now, after Star Wars, I played an intelligence officer of the American army. George Lucas saw the footage I had done and didn't recognise me until halfway through the scene.
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My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it.
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We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.
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I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test.
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As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.
