Top 100 Woodward Quotes
#1. Joanne Woodward's Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.
Jeanine Basinger
#2. And then, after publication of Bob Woodward's book Obama's Wars
Robert M. Gates
#3. The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
Ben Bradlee
#4. I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward.
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R.K. Ryals
#6. I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
W. Mark Felt
#7. Hey what's your name"
"Candi." She's hesitant, like that beaten dog Jade mentioned. "Candi Woodward."
"I'm Ayla Monroe."
She laughs uneasily. "I know."
"Out, Candi Cane," Jane orders.
Roxanne St. Claire
#8. The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward
Robert A. Caro
#9. Jacob Woodward had been a professional surfer with an impressive reputation for ten years until he'd
Noelle Adams
#10. Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.
Robert Reich
#11. Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.
Edward Klein
#12. I didn't really see a way to make a living on the farm. I always loved writing. I was the guy who won the D.A.R. essay contest and things like that, and it was the era of Watergate, and I decided I would be the next Woodward and Bernstein, and then retire to the farm.
Joel Salatin
#13. I mean there's that awesome quote where Joanne Woodward said, 'Acting is like sex: you should do it, not talk about it.'
Kristen Stewart
#14. What will it profit this country if we ... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?
Jerome Cavanagh
#15. A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life." - Orrin Woodward
Delaine Christine
#16. It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.
David Maraniss
#17. My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.
Ron Wyden
#18. My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.
Tom Jones
#19. Organizational theorists, at least since Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 in what came to be called the contingency school, have recognized that centralization is appropriate for organizations with routine tasks, and decentralization for those with nonroutine tasks.
Charles Perrow
#20. I sat next to Carl Bernstein throughout Watergate, and Woodward would come over, and they would argue everything out, so I was really tuned into what happened.
Ronald Kessler
#21. I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.
Chris Carter
#22. The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers.
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
#23. Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.
Orrin Woodward
#24. Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.
Bob Woodward
#25. The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
Bob Woodward
#26. The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
Bob Woodward
#27. A person either hates losing enough to change or he hates changing enough to lose.
Orrin Woodward
#28. You either hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose.
Orrin Woodward
#29. Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!
Orrin Woodward
#30. Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.
Orrin Woodward
#31. Everyone has the spark of greatness; a leader's role is to pour oxygen onto it forming the fire within.
Orrin Woodward
#32. Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
Bob Woodward
#33. 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.
Joanne Woodward
#34. Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.
Orrin Woodward
#35. You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be
Orrin Woodward
#36. Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.
Orrin Woodward
#37. It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.
Orrin Woodward
#38. Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
Joanne Woodward
#39. God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.
Orrin Woodward
#41. [Raising Hope] is a weird show about weird little humans who love each other.
Shannon Woodward
#42. Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.
Orrin Woodward
#43. The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
Bob Woodward
#44. It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad little men hiding in electrical sockets, waiting to be born of the human imagination.
Bud Macfarlane Jr.
#45. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
Orrin Woodward
#46. To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.
Orrin Woodward
#48. You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.
Orrin Woodward
#49. A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.
W.E. Woodward
#50. You must act in the face of reality, never taking counsel of you own worst fears.
Sandy Woodward
#51. When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.
Orrin Woodward
#52. Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.
Orrin Woodward
#53. I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.
Bob Woodward
#54. I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
Bob Woodward
#55. Absolute money (gold) makes limited-states and localized-wars (Pre-1913); Substitute money (fiat) makes Absolute States & Wars (Post-1913)
Orrin Woodward
#56. The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
Bob Woodward
#57. Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.
Bob Woodward
#58. 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.
Joanne Woodward
#59. Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
Bob Woodward
#60. 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.
Bob Woodward
#61. I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance. And it's not just anger or disappointment in their lives, it's the sense of, let's shake this up. And no one is shaking it up as much as Trump.
Bob Woodward
#62. Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.
Orrin Woodward
#63. I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.
Bob Woodward
#64. The fact he has some kind of bond with you is quite extraordinary", she [Deep Throat's daughter] said. "He doesn't remember Ed Miller and other FBI guys. He remembers J. Edgar Hoover".
Well, I thought, Hoover and me.
Bob Woodward
#65. The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.
Orrin Woodward
#66. The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.
Joanne Woodward
#67. Those focused on the future don't complain about their past; those complaining about their past aren't focused on their futures.
Orrin Woodward
#68. True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness.
Orrin Woodward
#70. The words from The Microlight Pilot's Handbook hammered in my temples. 'It is better to be on the ground wishing to God you were in the air, than in the air wishing to God you were on the ground.
Antony Woodward
#71. Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents.
Orrin Woodward
#72. You can't lose in sales if you remember that you're not selling; you're solving problems.
Orrin Woodward
#73. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.
Orrin Woodward
#74. When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.
Shannon Woodward
#75. A leader who accepts his own excuses cannot help others overcome theirs.
Orrin Woodward
#76. Wonderful is the power of instrumental music, absolute music without words, that may convey impressions, deep and lasting, no words could give.
Aubertine Woodward Moore
#77. I was dubious about the effects of the Alexander Technique when I first went in to experience it, but I found out almost immediately that the benefits were total - both physically and mentally - and, happily, have also been long-lasting.
Joanne Woodward
#78. Good work is always done in defiance of management.
Bob Woodward
#79. Mondays are just like Sam from Clarissa Explains it All. They just show up through the damn window whenever the hell they feel like it.
Shannon Woodward
#80. You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.
Orrin Woodward
#81. In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.
Bob Woodward
#82. Obama had campaigned against Bush's ideas and approaches. But, Donilon, for one, thought that Obama had perhaps underestimated the extent to which he had inherited George W. Bush's presidency - the apparatus, personnel and mind-set of war making.
Bob Woodward
#83. Knowledge is understanding universals; wisdom is the ability to recognize universal from the presented particulars.
Orrin Woodward
#84. After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
Bob Woodward
#85. Success is on the other side of your comfort zone.
Orrin Woodward
#86. Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.
Orrin Woodward
#87. I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
Bob Woodward
#88. I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
Bob Woodward
#89. The challenge for a mentee is not only to learn what he doesn't know, but also to unlearn what he thinks he knows.
Orrin Woodward
#90. Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
Bob Woodward
#91. I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.
Orrin Woodward
#93. A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.
Orrin Woodward
#94. Winners make every setback a floor to launch higher. Non-winners make every setback a ceiling to launch lower.
Orrin Woodward
#95. It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.
Orrin Woodward
#96. Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know.
Orrin Woodward
#97. The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.
Orrin Woodward
#98. Bob and I [Carl Bernstein]embraced and held each other briefly. There was a whole lifetime of emotions and journalism in this moment.
Bob Woodward
#99. Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.
Bob Woodward
#100. You cannot hear opportunities knocking if you are busy knocking opportunities.
Orrin Woodward
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