Eric Maisel Quotes

By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

Eric Maisel

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• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• I try to get in some extra carbohydrates and protein the night before and during my pre-match meal. I also eat about 200 calories right after to help rebuild my muscles.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Help
  • Night
  • Try

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Time
  • You
  • Team

• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Care
  • Percent

• I want my fans to understand that what you put into the universe is what you get back.

  

  Becky G
  • Want
  • Universe
  • Understand

• Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Morality
  • Stomach

• Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Journey
  • Nothing
  • Laugh

• There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • May
  • Practice
  • Doubt

• My sister is my very favorite person, and I dedicated 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' to her.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Sister

• My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved to Brooklyn.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • She
  • America
  • Grandmother

• It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

  

  Daryl Hannah

• Singing is actually my favourite thing to do in the world - so when you don't consider yourself as talented at anything academically, and there is one thing you're good at, I think it's best to follow what you're good at.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • World
  • Good
  • Singing

• 'Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Good
  • Live

• Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Gun

• I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a writer is true to his vocation, to his or her vocation, the very process of creativity enlarges these human horizons. It provides insights, even when you're not writing, when your writing's not dealing with a concrete political situation.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Writing
  • Political
  • Giving

• There is not a need to prove anything to anyone with your words. Let that which you are - that which you are living - be your clear example to uplift others.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Needs
  • Prove
  • Example

• By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Focus
  • Decision
  • Needs