Eric Greitens Quotes
Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
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When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
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Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
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When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.
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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.
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I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me.
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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Isn’t Hollywood a dump - in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.
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Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.
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There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.
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The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.
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Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.
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The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.
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There is no problem for which the instruction to love more is not the solution.
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The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.
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Endurance is mind over matter.
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As long as one makes some kind of conscious state, whether a “passive sensation” or an “apprehended”, come before reality, one will remain more or less in debt to the idealist method. The realist method pursues an exactly opposite course. Every given reality implies the thought which apprehends it. Therefore being is the condition of knowing; knowing is not the condition of being. When this has been established, another step in the direction of metaphysics can be taken.
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Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.
