Eric Maisel Quotes

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

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• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • America
  • Think

• The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Crime
  • Eternal

• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Purpose

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Present
  • Dark
  • Door

• We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Music
  • Control
  • Government

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Gun

• A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • Family
  • Interesting

• The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Like
  • Italian
  • Warm

• Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Love
  • Nature

• Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • True
  • Powerful

• I'm actually really bad at the Internet. I'm never scouring it to find new artists or new anything.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Bad

• There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'

  

  Bobby Ghosh
  • Different
  • Democracy
  • Poverty

• When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Girl
  • Serious

• The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I've learned a lot from the investigations and the trial. It's all my fault.

  

  Jay Y. Lee

• I love our country so much. And we should all love and respect each other because this is the greatest country in the world. I see the love. I see the unity in all walks of life on a daily basis and It makes me so proud to be an American.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Life
  • World
  • Country

• 'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

  

  Joe Dempsie
  • People

• You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Obstacles
  • Unprepared

• Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they fall short, sharing that journey is an experience they'll never forget. It can teach some of the most fundamental and important human values: dedication, perseverance, hard work, and teamwork. It also teaches us how to handle our success and cope with our failure. So, perhaps the greatest glory of sport is that is teaches us so much about life itself.

  

  Ahmad Rashad
  • Goal
  • Values
  • Sport

• Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Hope
  • Joy
  • Summer

• Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • People
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Creativity
  • Buckets
  • Beads