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.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Success
  • Purpose
  • Achievement

• 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

• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Work
  • Great
  • Vision

• '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

• Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

  

  Max Euwe
  • Game
  • Victory
  • 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

• Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.

  

  Gene Spafford
  • Achievement
  • Computer
  • Conclusion

• For me there’s no good or bad, as long as I’m feeling everything to the greatest degree, whether it’s sadness or happiness.

  

  Paz de la Huerta
  • Good
  • Long
  • Bad

• Why, then, even when I advanced, was I so quick to retreat? Why did I always have ready a gracious smile, a happy laugh, when things went badly? Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Smile
  • Excuses
  • Retreat

• Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

  

  John Milton
  • Death
  • Stands
  • Interpose

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

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Achievement
  • Records
  • Audiences