Richard Thompson Quotes

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

Richard Thompson

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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.

  

  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

• 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.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • May
  • Beginning

• 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 be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Successful
  • Achievement
  • Big

• 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

• 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.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Look

• 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 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.

  

  Anna Garlin Spencer
  • Women
  • Effort
  • Failure

• 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

• People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Why

• Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership

• How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.

  

  William Rothenstein
  • Today
  • Perfect
  • Beauty

• Feel yourself grounded to the earth, while your mind is focusing on the sky of clarity.

  

  Nawang Khechog
  • Mind
  • Earth
  • Clarity

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

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Achievement
  • Records
  • Audiences