FastSaying

A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.


Omari Hardwick

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
VOLTAIRE I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, ...
ALAN BALL There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd nev...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'...
LANCE GROSS I don't believe that you have to dress in a masculine way to seem powerful. I think that the way...
JASON WU 'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but b...
RACHEL PLATTEN An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
PHAEDRUS If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, wh...
BRUCE LIPTON Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the re...
YANN MARTEL Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are thos...
ELLEN GOODMAN The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes yo...
TAYLOR SWIFT At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's los...
BRENDAN BEHAN I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituali...
DANNY GLOVER The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.
GROVER NORQUIST I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are...
TRACY MORGAN In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
IRIS MURDOCH The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: 'I'm ...
MIRANDA HART There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important...
MARGUERITE MOREAU When I shoot at the range, I don't feel personally powerful but like the custodian of something ...
WALTER KIRN No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence ...
EDDIE VEDDER With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any em...
SAMANTHA HARVEY One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, ac...
DAVID GRANN You aren't allowed to ask at auditions, legally, a person's race.
DAVID HENRY HWANG I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about t...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that are...
STEVE WOZNIAK I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I am a clairaudient healer. My specialty is being able to discern the blocks within a person's e...
DEE WALLACE Flaws.
We all have them. BUT, they are all about perception. What I consider as a flaw may not ...
HORACIO JONES There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driv...
KEVIN O'LEARY There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driv...
KEVIN O'LEARY While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a...
E.M. FORSTER Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So...
ARUNDHATI ROY I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and...
DARREN BOYD For me, I don't think about size - I focus more on being powerful and confident.
SIMONE BILES Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the ...
CASS MCCOMBS The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the D...
GROVER NORQUIST At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost se...
BRENDAN FRANCIS Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
K. A. APPLEGATE The hardcore fanbase of nerds that live on the Internet are not nearly as powerful as I thought they...
EVAN GOLDBERG To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn...
NANCY DUARTE The relationships I've had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I t...
ELLEN PAGE Australians aren't really that crazy; in L.A. you get a little crazier. From my experience at le...
BRODY JENNER When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people aro...
REBA MCENTIRE Forgiveness is a powerful word that has a powerful meaning.
CHARLENA JACKSON We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally,...
COLIN KAEPERNICK One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read '...
JACK MCBRAYER Two powerful people can't be friends.
KARAN JOHAR If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you&#...
BARBARA DE ANGELIS Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all thin...
WAYNE DYER The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
ELLEN GOODMAN Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess...
KATE DICAMILLO Back in my State, I'm very close to being able to control the weather. I'll be all-powerful, once I'...
BRANDON SANDERSON You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking.
THE WEEKND We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experimen...
DAN PALLOTTA And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me...
IAN MCDIARMID There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&...
JACK WHITE High-end BREW phones aren't nearly as limited a gaming platform as you might think - they are a ...
JOHN CARMACK We're talking about powerful mafias. They're powerful, they're rich and they're ruthless.
DANIEL WILKINSON Their team is very powerful.
ERIKA HOLST Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one wi...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ...
PETER YORK I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
NATASHA LITTLE This is a Category 5 storm. Trust me, it is a powerful, powerful force of nature that you shouldn't ...
JEB BUSH I think there's something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic.
RACHEL MCADAMS I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or w...
DOROTHY STRATTEN The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the thing...
THEODOR ADORNO Just look at Gal Gadot when she smiles or when she meets somebody and shakes their hand. That is the...
PATTY JENKINS It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and al...
GLORIA ALLRED When I looked at that young man, I saw someone who could have a second chance to rehabilitate himsel...
JAMES RICHARDSON If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious lea...
JOSE GONZALEZ Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes ...
EDDIE MARSAN Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
NAPOLEON HILL I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from p...
J. CARTER BROWN Playing live is what it's all about for me. It's cathartic, it's emotional, it's abo...
PAUL WELLER There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're t...
FIONA APPLE Great is truth, and all powerful.
VULGATE Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy brea...
BARACK OBAMA A person with huge Money is powerful enough to buy anything in this world except his own PAST
ASHISH SOPHAT Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.
MARCIA WIEDER I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
LARRY WILCOX The two most powerful weapons are courage and persistence. Nothing can stop a person armed with bot...
SCOTT SORRELL You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of comp...
MARCUS BUCKINGHAM That's all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. 'Cos women are powerfu...
RIHANNA Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extreme...
OMARI HARDWICK I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.
AULIS SALLINEN All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work ...
PAULA PELL Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the on...
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. When the economy is difficult, people care a great deal about the things they spend their money on. ...
PHIL SCHILLER I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more st...
ELIZABETH PEYTON Things like 'mad as a hatter' or 'grinning like a Cheshire cat', are so powerful tha...
TIM BURTON The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. Th...
TIMOTHY D. SNYDER I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come...
YISHAN WONG Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking thei...
HAYDEN FRY You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and ...
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.
LES BROWN I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that ...
JAIME PRESSLY All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
ADAM MCKAY

More Omari Hardwick

I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been...
OMARI HARDWICK On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
OMARI HARDWICK Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
OMARI HARDWICK I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be r...
OMARI HARDWICK Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extreme...
OMARI HARDWICK I'm safe where I'm at just being the guy where people go, 'That's a really good acto...
OMARI HARDWICK Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & F...
OMARI HARDWICK Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
OMARI HARDWICK When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a...
OMARI HARDWICK The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before i...
OMARI HARDWICK I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
OMARI HARDWICK What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our w...
OMARI HARDWICK If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
OMARI HARDWICK It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They...
OMARI HARDWICK I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
OMARI HARDWICK For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me pl...
OMARI HARDWICK You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think...
OMARI HARDWICK I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.
OMARI HARDWICK We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And...
OMARI HARDWICK Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
OMARI HARDWICK I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review o...
OMARI HARDWICK Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
OMARI HARDWICK As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I ...
OMARI HARDWICK If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching thi...
OMARI HARDWICK Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer bec...
OMARI HARDWICK I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as muc...
OMARI HARDWICK People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there need...
OMARI HARDWICK I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall o...
OMARI HARDWICK I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who ...
OMARI HARDWICK I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a ...
OMARI HARDWICK I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washingto...
OMARI HARDWICK I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to a...
OMARI HARDWICK Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, beca...
OMARI HARDWICK I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us...
OMARI HARDWICK For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lu...
OMARI HARDWICK I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very larg...
OMARI HARDWICK Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I ...
OMARI HARDWICK I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you'...
OMARI HARDWICK We at the centre want to encourage people to lead a healthier lifestyle and to raise their awareness...
MUSA OMARI I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so ...
CHRIS HARDWICK While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants...
CHRIS HARDWICK Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of...
CHRIS HARDWICK Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most s...
CHRIS HARDWICK What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to...
CHRIS HARDWICK The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicate...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn...
DESTINEE HARDWICK The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expec...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an ...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK [Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered g...
CHRIS HARDWICK The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a ...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference—with words...
- ELIZABETH HARDWICK For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the ...
CHRIS HARDWICK I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people ar...
CHRIS HARDWICK American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Mos...
CHRIS HARDWICK The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, i...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it g...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Fisher was a Republican of convenience. If it were up to most Republicans, everybody in the County E...
KEVIN HARDWICK We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there ...
CHRIS HARDWICK In the end, all that time I spent in the 'Star Wars' universe fostered galaxies of creativit...
CHRIS HARDWICK We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.
CHRIS HARDWICK Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
CHRIS HARDWICK It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 4...
CHRIS HARDWICK It was very distressing to see how completely relaxed and normal Jean Charles appeared, particularly...
NICK HARDWICK Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in un...
CHRIS HARDWICK I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other ...
CHRIS HARDWICK She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was ...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.
CHRIS HARDWICK Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn'...
CHRIS HARDWICK The first rule in the book of love is acceptance.
DESTINEE HARDWICK Well, you know he was just being nice. That was the only steak I had that year.
CHRIS HARDWICK I got more recognized for that commercial (Miller Makes It Right!) than any tournament I won, ... Th...
CHRIS HARDWICK Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.
CHRIS HARDWICK I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one...
CHRIS HARDWICK He's definitely into it more. He's just more excited. When you are more comfortable playing a positi...
NICK HARDWICK Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an ...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communi...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often th...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK To this day, there is nothing about Rebecca I don't like,
CHRIS HARDWICK I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated,...
CHRIS HARDWICK I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy ve...
CHRIS HARDWICK The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, espec...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA H...
CHRIS HARDWICK Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of...
CHRIS HARDWICK Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough,...
CHRIS HARDWICK Comment threads are the new therapy for people. They just go and post the worst things they can thin...
CHRIS HARDWICK The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans i...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange appariti...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself with...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen ha...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessn...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Worry is a misuse of your imagination.
CHRIS HARDWICK Canadians, do not vomit on me!
ELIZABETH HARDWICK No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the bett...
CHRIS HARDWICK