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

• If you have time to chatter, Read books. If you have time to read, Walk into mountain, desert and ocean. If you have time to walk, Sing songs and dance. If you have time to dance, Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot.

  

  Nanao Sakaki
  • Time
  • Book
  • Happy

• Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other assholes who claim running a representative government is so difficult. The emphasis has been taken from the Bill of Rights and placed on the type of interpretation of the Constitution that best suits the people in power.

  

  William Powell
  • People
  • Country
  • Running

• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.

  

  George Hickenlooper
  • World
  • Age
  • Culture

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

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Creativity
  • Buckets
  • Beads