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
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• 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

• People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Belt

• Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Reach
  • Within
  • Trusted

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

  

  Becky G
  • Want
  • Universe
  • Understand

• A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Deep
  • Results
  • Insecurity

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Morality
  • Stomach

• Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Business
  • High
  • Free

• 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 parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Parents
  • Tears
  • Teenager

• If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • May
  • Soul

• It's time you stop thinking that because you did something, it's... amazing. All you've got to do is say, 'OK. If I'm great, what do they call Steve Jobs?'

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Time
  • Great
  • Thinking

• There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat

  

  Haile Selassie
  • People
  • Moving
  • Decision

• 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