Richard Thompson Quotes

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

Richard Thompson

• Achievement
• Records
• Audiences

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Records

• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Quality

• I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Perfect
  • Day
  • Beginning

• To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Poets
  • Audiences

• I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Real
  • Achievement
  • London

• 'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Records
  • Street

• Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

  

  Karen O
  • Difficult
  • Really
  • Records

• The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Society

• The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and … each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Mind
  • Growth
  • Achievement

• What typically emerges from looking at kids, gifted and ordinary, is that, from the kids’ point of view, accomplishment, that is, the private sense of mastery, the hard thing suddenly made easy, counts for far more in their inner lives than does the achievement-the competition won, the reward secured.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Kids
  • Competition
  • Achievement

• Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?

  

  James Patterson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Achievement

• It's a really big deal to have a star on the Walk of Fame; it feels like an incredible achievement.

  

  Jason Priestley
  • Star
  • Achievement

• Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Achievement

• High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • High
  • Achievement
  • Expectation

• The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.

  

  John von Neumann
  • Thinking
  • Achievement

• The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the US is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.

  

  George Gilder
  • World
  • Effort
  • Belief

• On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

  

  George Gilder
  • Wealth
  • Creating
  • Victim

• When I start getting old, I'm going to start ending my prayers like, "Lord, it'd be a good day to die." I don't wanna be 130 years old with a diaper on, all my friends dead and gone. I wanna get to heaven, come get me!

  

  Suge Knight
  • Friends
  • Heaven
  • Prayer

• Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • God
  • Minister
  • Benevolence

• When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why - to produce a photo-op that would clearly show America would be the winner in the decades-long battle of political systems called the Cold War.

  

  Rick Tumlinson
  • Political
  • Systems
  • Exactly

• The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Achievement
  • Records
  • Audiences