George Eads Quotes

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

George Eads

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• It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Happy

• Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Never
  • Easy
  • Decisions

• My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.

  

  Ian Watson
  • She
  • Wife
  • Drive

• If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Today

• It's something nice to be number one, of course, but there are much more expectations.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Nice

• Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Country
  • Small
  • Perfect

• The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined - especially if you're doing musicals, you have to be in shape physically, mentally, and have to be on your game all the time. That's exhausting. On TV, especially a sitcom, you have a lot of free time to play.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Life
  • Time
  • Game

• I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

  

  Ken Burns
  • Why

• The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • God

• The pace is so fast in summer stock. In college shows, there is more time for rehearsals.

  

  Annie Wersching
  • Time
  • College
  • Summer

• I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

  

  Big Boi
  • Music

• My kids, they're like nine or ten years old right now so you give 'em responsibilities just to keep them up on things. It ain't just all about getting on the skateboard or putting your Heelys on, and swimming in the pool all the time. You gotta do stuff like wash dishes, take the trash out, feed the dog.

  

  Big Boi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.

  

  Kelly Asbury

• I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.

  

  Christopher Marlowe
  • Justice

• I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

  

  Janis Ian
  • God
  • Career

• I put in a lot of effort for a show like 'Jhansi Ki Rani,' and it worked. I think I am very lucky I have done that show!

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • Done
  • Effort

• In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.

  

  Jess Weixler
  • Time
  • Good
  • Surfing

• Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love, and it's a part of me.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Passion
  • Surfing

• I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.'

  

  Billy Boyd
  • Beach
  • Surfing

• There are times, perhaps once every thirty years, when there is a sea-change in politics. It then does not matter what you say or what you do. There is a shift in what the public wants and what it approves of. I suspect there is now such a sea-change and it is for Mrs. Thatcher.

  

  James Callaghan
  • Sea

• It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

  

  George Eads
  • Surfing