Eric Thomas Quotes
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An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.
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Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.
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Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress.
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To get to that next level, you gotta learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable.
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If you find something greater than yourself, to move you! Then you will make every single dream, become a reality!
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Your dream will not become a reality until you shift from Very Important to an Emergency!
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Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.
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Apply the ABC’s of success to your life. Ask, Believe and Claim It.
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Las Vegas doesn't allow tourism to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no one is willing to come to. But we can't let tourism be the reason for not taking action. Accountability is not there. As a community we can be different. We don't have to be what our visitors are. We can work at policies that will make us a vibrant healthy resort community.
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Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor.
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Work! Look at the secrets to success, look at your family, your community, your culture, take a look at what they have done to be successful and don't fool yourself. Don't think that you are going to get success on discount.
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You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice.
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I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”
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Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.
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Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.
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You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.
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One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and I'm not just talking about just to eat. You have to think about the civil rights movement, they were putting in work; marching, walking miles and miles, sacrificing, getting on the bus, feeding one another, they had schools, voter registration, they were working! They were hard workers so my advice is to work.
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Every time I am on the field I am a threat to make a big play. I am going to do my job every day and can be relied upon.
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Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world.
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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
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Success is never on discount! Greatness is never on sale! Greatness is never half off! It's all or nothing! It's all day, every day! Greatness is never on discount!
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You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful...Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it!
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You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change.
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I'm like the LION, i'm not the GAZELLE.