Vernon Howard Quotes

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.

Vernon Howard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 16, 1918 - August 23, 1992

Topics

StrengthPowerPersonalityThink

You want to go into scenes thinking not that you're the good guy or the bad guy, but that you've got a job to do. And I'm not talking about as an actor; I'm talking about as the character.

Andrew J. West

GoodCharacterJobThinkingTalking

The first book I bought with my own money as a teenager was Martin Amis's 'Money.' You know that thing when you read a book and you think, 'I'm going to have to read every word ever written by this man.'

John Niven

MoneyManBookThinkYouKnow

What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients and low wage workers.

Matthew Desmond

PovertySeeingHighCostWorkers

I don't care if I'm starting or sweeping the floors. You hear me? I want to win.

Metta World Peace

MeWinCareYouWantStarting

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

Steven Pinker

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You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.

Ruud Gullit

FunnyHomePushYouPlaySometimes

There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.

Ruben Blades

MoreEmotionOutSomethingEven

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

Mary Harris Jones

MeSomeoneTeachersDiamondRough

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

Luis Videgaray Caso

BetterOpenAbsolutelyMakingNAFTA

The biggest thing in my life - the biggest - is raising dollars to help kids battle cancer.

Dick Vitale

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I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.

Denis Villeneuve

I AmBetterI CanSeriousUnderstand

In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.

Connie Britton

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