Hal Elrod Quotes

Focus on who you are becoming not what you are doing

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• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Gift
  • Conscious
  • Curse

• The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • First

• Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Happiness

• People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Impact

• But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Than

• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Easy

• Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I love 'Glee.'

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Glee

• The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Revolution

• I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Time
  • Country
  • Political

• It's going to be so obvious when something isn't well made for VR. People are going to use the best VR content. That's the stuff that's going to get shown to people. That's the stuff that's going to get demoed. That's most of what people are going to buy.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Best
  • Content

• I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Wear
  • Wigs

• I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Day
  • Meditation
  • Twice

• If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Women
  • Political
  • Best

• The United States does not provide economic support funds to the Palestinian Authority to build new homes for terrorists or fund President Abbas' anti-Israel campaign trips through Europe.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Support
  • New
  • Build

• Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Smile
  • Anxiety
  • Anger

• Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Passion
  • Wise
  • Christ

• My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Think
  • Goal

• I went to college when I was 27, and somehow, between high school and college, I became obsessed with getting A's. I can tell you exactly how many non-A's I had, and tell you honestly that I cried every time!

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency... You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Celebrity

• Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • People
  • Earth
  • Focus

• Focus on execution rather than just the idea.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Focus
  • Idea
  • Execution

• Focus on who you are becoming not what you are doing

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Focus