A.G. Howard Quotes

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression

An indictment is not a conviction.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.

I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.

I don't have any secret sauce and I'm no smarter than anyone else. I will say I have surrounded myself with unbelievable talent that has made my job easier.

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

The real spirit of Christmas lies in the life and mission of the Master.

If you hire people who are smarter than you, maybe you are showing that you are a little bit smarter than them.

Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.

When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

I like the authentic punk dance you did there. It's like a child dizzy off lemonade

The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish!

Genuine effort is success.

In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.

You should forgive your enemies and if you haven't any, just forgive a few of your friends.

I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.