Top 100 Woodward Quotes
#1. Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.
Orrin Woodward
#2. Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.
Bob Woodward
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. A person either hates losing enough to change or he hates changing enough to lose.
Orrin Woodward
#6. You either hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose.
Orrin Woodward
#7. Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!
Orrin Woodward
#8. Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.
Orrin Woodward
#9. Everyone has the spark of greatness; a leader's role is to pour oxygen onto it forming the fire within.
Orrin Woodward
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.
Orrin Woodward
#13. You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be
Orrin Woodward
#14. Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.
Orrin Woodward
#15. It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.
Orrin Woodward
#16. 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
#17. God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.
Orrin Woodward
#19. [Raising Hope] is a weird show about weird little humans who love each other.
Shannon Woodward
#20. Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.
Orrin Woodward
#21. 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
#22. Joanne Woodward's Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.
Jeanine Basinger
#23. 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.
#24. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
Orrin Woodward
#25. To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.
Orrin Woodward
#26. And then, after publication of Bob Woodward's book Obama's Wars
Robert M. Gates
#28. 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
#29. I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward.
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R.K. Ryals
#30. You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.
Orrin Woodward
#31. 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
#32. You must act in the face of reality, never taking counsel of you own worst fears.
Sandy Woodward
#33. When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.
Orrin Woodward
#34. Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.
Orrin Woodward
#35. I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.
Bob Woodward
#36. 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
#37. Absolute money (gold) makes limited-states and localized-wars (Pre-1913); Substitute money (fiat) makes Absolute States & Wars (Post-1913)
Orrin Woodward
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
Bob Woodward
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.
Orrin Woodward
#45. I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.
Bob Woodward
#46. 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
#47. The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.
Orrin Woodward
#48. 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
#50. I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
W. Mark Felt
#51. Those focused on the future don't complain about their past; those complaining about their past aren't focused on their futures.
Orrin Woodward
#52. True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness.
Orrin Woodward
#54. 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
#55. Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents.
Orrin Woodward
#56. You can't lose in sales if you remember that you're not selling; you're solving problems.
Orrin Woodward
#57. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.
Orrin Woodward
#58. When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.
Shannon Woodward
#59. A leader who accepts his own excuses cannot help others overcome theirs.
Orrin Woodward
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Good work is always done in defiance of management.
Bob Woodward
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.
Orrin Woodward
#66. In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.
Bob Woodward
#67. 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
#68. Knowledge is understanding universals; wisdom is the ability to recognize universal from the presented particulars.
Orrin Woodward
#69. 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
#70. Success is on the other side of your comfort zone.
Orrin Woodward
#71. Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.
Orrin Woodward
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward
Robert A. Caro
#76. Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
Bob Woodward
#77. I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.
Orrin Woodward
#79. A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.
Orrin Woodward
#80. Winners make every setback a floor to launch higher. Non-winners make every setback a ceiling to launch lower.
Orrin Woodward
#81. 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
#82. Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know.
Orrin Woodward
#83. The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.
Orrin Woodward
#84. 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
#85. Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.
Bob Woodward
#86. You cannot hear opportunities knocking if you are busy knocking opportunities.
Orrin Woodward
#87. Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own.
Orrin Woodward
#88. The candle inside will eventually burn out; the question is: did it light the path for those following us?
Orrin Woodward
#89. Clinton ... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.
Bob Woodward
#90. Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.
Bob Woodward
#91. Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.
Orrin Woodward
#92. Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.
Orrin Woodward
#93. Jacob Woodward had been a professional surfer with an impressive reputation for ten years until he'd
Noelle Adams
#94. You have to acquire a personal peace of mind which comes with understanding.
Sandy Woodward
#95. A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.
Orrin Woodward
#96. In life, most people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.
Orrin Woodward
#97. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.
Orrin Woodward
#98. You cannot live your dreams and fears simultaneously. One must die.
Orrin Woodward
#99. Everyone deals with the problems of life, but remember the goal is to solve them to get new ones.
Orrin Woodward
#100. If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.
Orrin Woodward
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