Lou Holtz Quotes

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• I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • World
  • Explore

• I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Good
  • Young
  • Guitar

• I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Business
  • Pride
  • Organization

• It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Done
  • Worry

• No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Doubt

• Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.

  

  Wiz Khalifa
  • People

• It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Time

• Taking a vote or poll is a great simple way to take a decision, but it doesn't help a group find consensus. It actually polarizes people and highlights the differences between them. People end up getting entrenched in their views.

  

  Louis B. Rosenberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

  

  Peter Mullan
  • Done
  • Baby

• Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.

  

  Jose Canseco
  • Game
  • Control
  • Lost

• What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know. Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn’t,either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who cared what happened to him. My name is none of your business,' he said, and continued to stare out the window, even though there was nothing but blurry brick out there. Can I call you None for short?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • She
  • Business

• I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Men
  • Women
  • Black

• I am a southern guy who likes dressing up and looking sharp but who lives a busy life of working and traveling, and I need reliable, stylish pieces in my wardrobe that will service multiple occasions.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Guy

• Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

  

  Arthur Powell Davies
  • Life
  • Soul
  • inspirational

• I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Book
  • Opinion
  • Saws

• Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us join His flock without delay.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Voice

• You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Myself
  • Cancer

• Helping to find jobs, counseling, whatever we can offer, because there's all different kinds of people here who want to give of their services or their homes, who may or may not have already given money or of their time, or clothing or whatever. So, it's really just to try to bring as many people together as we can.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Find
  • Helping
  • Jobs

• There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Hollywood
  • Idiot
  • Awards

• If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.

  

  Wolfgang Pauli
  • Ideas
  • Being
  • Wrong

• Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Firm
  • Empires
  • Firm Foundation