Eric Maisel Quotes
Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?
Quotes to Explore
-
I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
-
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
-
You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
-
A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
-
If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
-
I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
-
People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
-
I think it's cool people love to hate me.
-
Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
-
It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
-
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
-
Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
-
Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.
-
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
-
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-
When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.
-
After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
-
I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.
-
Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
-
Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
-
Once I got to college, it seemed that the Hamptons were a little bit too posh for me and didn't represent the kind of values I was embracing in my late teens. So, I didn't go out there, except to visit my parents, for a long time. And then, after 9/11, I discovered it was a nice, mellow place to hang out.
Colson Whitehead -
With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
-
When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
-
Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?
