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Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice
James Howell
Effective leaders almost never need to yell. The leader will have created an environment where disappointing him causes his people to be disappointed in themselves. Guilt and affection are far more powerful motivators than fear. The great coaches of team sports are almost always people who simply need to say, in a quiet voice, “That wasn’t our best, now was it?” and his players melt. They love this man, know he loves them, and will work tirelessly not to disappoint him. People are drawn to this kind of leader, as I was drawn all those years ago to Harry Howell, the grocer. A leader who screams at his employees or belittles them will not attract and retain great talent over the long term.
James B. Comey (A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership)
It's no use crying over spilt milk What’s done, is done.
James Howell
An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise
James Howell
Effective leaders almost never need to yell. The leader will have created an environment where disappointing him causes his people to be disappointed in themselves. Guilt and affection are far more powerful motivators than fear. The great coaches of team sports are almost always people who simply need to say, in a quiet voice, “That wasn’t our best, now was it?” and his players melt. They love this man, know he loves them, and will work tirelessly not to disappoint him. People are drawn to this kind of leader, as I was drawn all those years ago to Harry Howell, the grocer. A leader who screams
James Comey (A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership)
Could any State on Earth Immortall be, Venice by Her rare Goverment is She; Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd, Though by the warrlikst Potentats assayed; Yet She retaines Her Virgin-waters pure, Nor any Forren mixtures can endure; Though, Syren-like on Shore and Sea, Her Face Enchants all those whom once She doth embrace, Nor is ther any can Her bewty prize But he who hath beheld her with his Eyes: Those following Leaves display, if well observed, How she long Her Maydenhead preserved, How for sound prudence She still bore the Bell; Whence may be drawn this high-fetchd parallel, Venus and Venice are Great Queens in their degree, Venus is Queen of Love, Venice of Policie.
James Howell (S.P.Q.V.: a survay of the signorie of Venice)
Harry Howell had power, and he wielded it with compassion and understanding. That wasn’t always easy for him, because he had to deal with a lot of immature kids. Others had power, like the bullies at school, and they found it far easier to wield it against those who were defenseless and to just go along with the group rather than stand up to it.
James Comey (A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership)
Being an outsider, being picked on, was very painful, but in hindsight it made me a better judge of people. In my life I would spend a lot of time assessing threats, judging tone of voice, and figuring out the shifting dynamic in a hallway or locker room crowd. Surviving a bully requires constant learning and adaptation. Which is why bullies are so powerful, because it’s so much easier to be a follower, to go with the crowd, to just blend in. Those years of bullying added up, minor indignity after indignity, making clear the consequences of power. Harry Howell had power, and he wielded it with compassion and understanding. That wasn’t always easy for him, because he had to deal with a lot of immature kids. Others had power, like the bullies at school, and they found it far easier to wield it against those who were defenseless and to just go along with the group rather than stand up to it. I learned this lesson, too, in one of the great early mistakes of my life. * * * In 1978, I attended the College of William & Mary. I was one of many insecure, homesick, frightened kids living away from home for the first time, although we would admit none of that to one another, or even to ourselves. Because of overcrowding, I was among seventeen freshman boys living in a
James Comey (A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership)
Alexander McCall Smith, Janet Evanovich, John Grisham, Mary Higgins Clark, Robert Crais, C. J. Box, Diane Mott Davidson, James Lee Burke, and Laura Lippman, but there were also fresh names, wonderful writers all, Mary Saums, Dorothy Howell, David Fuller, Charles Finch, Megan Abbott, Christopher Fowler, Patricia Briggs, Deanna Raybourn, and Donis Casey.
Carolyn G. Hart (Laughed 'Til He Died (Death on Demand, #20))
Happy is he that grows wise by other men’s harms.
James Howell
June 19: Sunday at 2:30 p.m., Reverend Benjamin Lingenfelder of the Christian Science church marries Norma Jeane and twenty-one-year-old James Dougherty at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Howell. Chester is an attorney and friend of Grace, who chooses the Howell home at 432 South Bentley Avenue in West Los Angeles because it has a spiral staircase that Norma Jeane uses to make a dramatic entrance. Ana Lower makes Norma Jeane’s wedding gown and accompanies her to the altar. Norma Jeane has one bridesmaid, Lorraine Allen, a friend from University High School. No member of Norma Jeane’s family is present, but the Bolenders make an appearance. It is the last time they will see her. After a modest reception at the Florentine Gardens in Hollywood, Norma Jeane and Jim go to their home in Sherman Oaks. Jim Dougherty later recalled that his wife held on to him the entire afternoon. The young couple does not honeymoon but goes for a fishing weekend on Sherwood Lake. On Sundays they attend the Sherman Oaks Christian Science church.
Carl Rollyson (Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events)
In the futures markets, they bought and sold paper contracts. Futures contracts had been around for more than a century and were an integral part of the food system. Corn, pork, and soybean futures were traded on the Chicago Board of Trade. The NYMEX specialized in eggs and butter. The futures market wasn’t big—traders in the market tended to be farmers and big grain millers. They used futures contracts to limit their risk. The owners of the NYMEX weren’t content with their sleepy corner of the financial world, and they decided to expand their business and sell contracts for new kinds of products. The NYMEX introduced the first futures contract for crude oil in 1983. At first, the birth of oil futures contracts looked like a threat to Koch’s business model. Howell and his team spent years figuring out how to be the smartest blind men in the dark cave of the physical oil business and making the best guess as to the real price of oil. Koch Industries had gained an expertise in exploiting the opacity of oil markets and wringing the best price out of its counterparties. The new oil futures contract created something that was anathema to this business model: transparency. When the NYMEX debuted its oil futures contract, it created a very visible price for crude oil that changed by the minute on a public exchange. Again, this wasn’t the price of real crude; it was the price for a futures contract on crude, reflecting the best guess of all market participants as to what a barrel of oil would be worth in the future. Even though the futures price wasn’t the real price, it provided everybody with a common reference point. Now, when Koch called up someone to buy oil from Koch’s tank farm in St. James, that customer could look at a screen and start haggling based on what the markets in New York were saying the price of oil was worth. “It was the first time that there was a common, visible market signal,” Howell said. “It just kind of sucked the oxygen out of the room for that physical trading.
Christopher Leonard (Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America)
if today you sold everything you possessed and gave it to the poor, you would indeed take a huge economic hit. But you would survive. You’d collect your next paycheck.
James C. Howell (Conversations with St. Francis)
for God raised Jesus from the dead for the sake of shepherds and children and poor folks and all of us who worry a lot about security but can never finally make ourselves safe.
James C. Howell (Why This Jubilee?: Advent Reflections on Songs of the Season)
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen" James Howell
Hugh Laurie (The Gun Seller)
Most high, glorious God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me, Lord, correct faith, firm hope, perfect charity, wisdom and perception, that I may do what is truly your most holy will.
James C. Howell (Conversations with St. Francis)
Don't cry over spilled milk.
British historian James Howell in 1659
He set his wine goblet on the table, knelt by Bridget’s feet, and took her hands in his, pressing a kiss upon each small, soft palm before looking at her. “What ye saw happen to those thieves and what ye saw tonight is a part of me. I cannae deny it. I cannae deny that there have been MacNachtons who have behaved verra much like the creatures of some nightmare. There is a feral part of me, of us. It comes out in the hunt, in battle, in anger. It has been a verra long time, however, since MacNachtons were a threat to innocent Outsiders, although I fear Scymynd would like to be so again. They used to call us the Nightriders because we raced out of these hills at night and death always followed, though nay in the ways and numbers the tales would have ye believe. I think Scymynd wants those days to return.” “What of the sun, Cathal? Can that kill ye?” “Aye, eventually. Tis as if the sun feeds upon us, steals the life right out of us. It burns us up. A Pureblood can die rather quickly if caught out in the sun. I can endure it for a while, but it does leave me feeling weak and ill.” “And what of whatever children we may be blessed with?” “I cannae say. There isnae any way to ken what traits will weaken, which will linger, and which will disappear. My cousin Connall is of the same paternal and maternal bloodline as I am, but is different. James is born of a halfblood and an Outsider. He can endure quite a lot of daylight, but he still suffers a wee bit.” Bridget slipped her hands free of his grasp and took his face in her hands. “It matters not. I chose ye. I have said vows afore God. Tis good to ken that I deal with people, nay demons, but it still doesnae matter. Ye are my husband.” There
Hannah Howell (The Eternal Highlander (McNachton Vampires, #1))
Fuller decided to live from then on as if he had died that night. Being dead, he wouldn't have to worry about how things worked out any longer for himself personally and would be free to devote himself to living as a representative of the universe. The rest of his life would be a gift. Instead of living for himself, he would devote himself to asking, ‘what is it on this planet that needs doing that I know something about, that probably won't happen unless I take responsibility for it?’ He decided he would just ask that question continuously and do what came to him, following his nose. In this way, working for humanity as an employee of the universe at large, you get to modify and contribute to your locale by who you are, how you are, and what you do. But it’s no longer personal. It's just part of the totality of the universe expressing itself.” -Jon Kabat-Zinn
Cody James Howell (Sauntering Thru: Lessons in Ambition, Minimalism, and Love on the Appalachian Trail)
They who make researches into antiquity, may be said to pass often through many dark lobbies, and dusky places, before they come to AULA LUCIS, the Great Hall of Light ; They must repair to old Archives, and peruse many mouldred and moth-eaten Records, and so bring light as it were out of darkness, to inform the present world, what the former did, and make us see truth through our ancestors' eyes. . . . " Londinopolis, 1657
Howell, James
They who make researches into antiquity, may be said to pass often through many dark lobbies, and dusky places, before they come to AULA LUCIS, the Great Hall of Light; They must repair to old Archives, and peruse many mouldred and moth-eaten Records, and so bring light as it were out of darkness, to inform the present world, what the former did, and make us see truth through our ancestors' eyes. . . . " Londinopolis, 1657
Howell, James
They who make researches into antiquity, may be said to passe often through many dark lobbies, and dusky places, before they come to AULA LUCIS, the Great Hall of Light; They must repair to old Archives, and peruse many mouldred and moth-eaten Records, and so bring light as it were out of darkness, to inform the present world, what the former did, and make us see truth through our ancestors' eyes. . . . " Londinopolis, 1657
Howell, James
They who make researches into antiquity, may be said to pass often through many dark lobbies, and dusky places, before they come to AULA LUCIS, the Great Hall of Light ; They must repair to old Archives, and peruse many mouldred and moth-eaten Records, and so bring light as it were out of darkness, to inform the present world, what the former did, and make us see truth through our ancestors' eyes. . . . " Londinopolis, 1657
Howell, James
They who make researches into antiquity, may be said to pass often through many dark lobbies, and dusky places, before they come to AULA LUCIS, the Great Hall of Light ; They must repair to old Archives, and peruse many mouldred and moth-eaten Records, and so bring light as it were out of darkness, to inform the present world, what the former did, and make us see truth through our ancestors' eyes. . . . " Londinopolis, 1657
Howell, James
This place was awesome, but I wasn’t able to fully appreciate the scope of it until after we had our fill of bar food. Beer and greasy food always induces a unique bliss after hiking long distances; especially true because of the work to earn it.
Cody James Howell (Sauntering Thru: Lessons in Ambition, Minimalism, and Love on the Appalachian Trail)
Effective leaders almost never need to yell. The leader will have created an environment where disappointing him causes his people to be disappointed in themselves. Guilt and affection are far more powerful motivators than fear. The great coaches of team sports are almost always people who simply need to say, in a quiet voice, “That wasn’t our best, now was it?” and his players melt. They love this man, know he loves them, and will work tirelessly not to disappoint him. People are drawn to this kind of leader, as I was drawn all those years ago to Harry Howell, the grocer. A leader who screams at his employees or belittles them will not attract and retain great talent over the long term.
James Comey (A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership)
French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven." - British writer James Howell (1634)
Andrew Cullen (Decoding French Wine: A Beginner’s Guide to Enjoying the Fruits of the French Terroir)