Richard Thompson Quotes
The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
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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.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.
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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.
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And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
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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.
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To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.
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'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.
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Sophomore records are historically really difficult.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The reason I sell 6 million records, the reason I could go to jail and come out without a scratch, the reason I can walk around, the reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly in to my face and find my soul, it's there, it's not sold, i didn't sell it, it's still within me, I still feel it, my heart is still connected to my body.
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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?
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
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From the get-go, my musical influences come from hip pop, popular stuff. And then I backtracked into the blues, jazz and classical. I always had a pop sensibility. I mean I'm making records to sell em!
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There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.
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As you get older, you get a bit more serious.
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Always take a chance on better, even if it seems threatening.
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The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
