A.G. Howard Quotes

You can't change yesterdays, but you can change tomorrows.

It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.

I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold.

In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

You never graduate from the school of discipleship.

I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out. He went mental, but not before he counted them all.

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.

Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.

The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.

If you're just like someone else, we don't need you.

If I could teach my children only one thing, it would be the skill of marketing. For with that skill, they could be successful at anything they chose for the rest of their lives.

What the world need is people who have come alive.

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

Everyone starts strong. Success comes to those with unwavering commitment to be at the end.

If you feel that . . . what you do this year or in the years to come does not make you very famous, take heart. Most of the best people who ever lived weren't very famous either.

Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.

If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.

Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.

Vision without integrity is not mission - it's manipulation.

Everything revolves around the fork.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

I'm one of three brothers.

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.

The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.

I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.

Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.

I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.

Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.

I like women who look like me. Generally, you're attracted to women who look like you, because the most beautiful thing in nature is your own reflection.

Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.