W.E. Woodward Quotes

Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

You either hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose.

You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.

Take time today to pause every now and then, take a deep breath of that moment, and know that God loves you. He will whisper "I love you" in a 1000 different ways.

If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.

Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.

Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting.

Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.

Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.

All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges.

You cannot hear opportunities knocking if you are busy knocking opportunities.

Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.

Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things.

Courage results when one's convictions are bigger than one's fears.

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

Belief is the magic key that unlocks your dreams.

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision and perseverance to develop their talents.

I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.

You will never realize success on the outside until you can see it clearly o the inside. Success is inside out.

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

Winning the World Cup was the worst thing that ever happened to the England team.

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum.

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question.