Eric Maisel Quotes

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

Eric Maisel

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• I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Happens
  • Fan
  • Bully

• Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Art
  • Criticism

• I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Would
  • Fragrance
  • Fanatic

• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Faith
  • Light
  • Dark

• The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Important
  • Know
  • Me

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Future
  • Achievement
  • Gender

• Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Think
  • Awesome

• Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Giving
  • Enough
  • Fortune

• China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

  

  Origen
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Mystery

• You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • You
  • Faith
  • Nothing

• We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Eye
  • Moon
  • Animals

• It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Business
  • Day
  • Fight

• It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Focus
  • Beginning

• In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Life
  • Man
  • Day

• I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Life
  • School
  • Experience

• And while I ate muffins—things I had never been able even to look at in London, but now swallowed with complacence,—and Pincher sat in front of me watching every mouthful, just as though he hadn’t had an enormous dinner a few minutes before, and the cat, finished with Knobbie’s ears, deftly turned her over and began tidying her stomach, I did feel that my feet were set once more in the path of peace, and that all I had to do was to continue steadily along it.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Peace
  • London
  • Dinner

• I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • Voice
  • Saying

• What I saw over all that time were so many deals disappearing and producers disappearing, fewer movies getting made, and it just being a bit more difficult. Working with Joel, we were in a bit of a bubble because he was always making things that were working for the studio and that kind of thing. We were always in production on something.

  

  Susan Downey
  • Movies
  • Difficult
  • Working

• Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

  

  Ananda Coomaraswamy
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Artist

• Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Artist
  • Forget
  • Working