Eric Davis Quotes

When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you've developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have.

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• I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Advice
  • End
  • Medical

• President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Experience
  • America
  • Age

• What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Work
  • Attention

• Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Welfare
  • Liberal
  • Signing

• A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Car
  • Gun

• Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • Myself
  • Acting

• There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Education

• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Mind
  • Should
  • Criminal

• We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Smiling

• Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Courage
  • Doing
  • Afraid

• Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.

  

  Carlos Saavedra Lamas
  • Work
  • Great
  • Children

• Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Person
  • Prosperity
  • Turn

• And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Up
  • Song
  • Energy

• I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.

  

  Jenny Han
  • People
  • Movie
  • Teen

• I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is.

  

  Kristanna Loken
  • Energy

• When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Theatre

• The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

  

  Douglas Lain
  • Fun
  • House
  • Science

• I'm not a great Maureen Dowd fan, because I really find her poisonous, on the record.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Great

• We have all these ideas and visions, and they're able to come to life, and our voices are being heard, which is really amazing.

  

  Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Amazing

• The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Country
  • Family

• I like very straight comedy.

  

  Judge Reinhold
  • Comedy
  • Like

• When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you've developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have.

  

  Eric Davis