Eric Thomas Quotes

Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.

Eric Thomas

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• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • War
  • Man
  • Desire

• I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Desire

• Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Imagination
  • Lies
  • Creative

• Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • May
  • Desire
  • Possible

• Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Country
  • American
  • America

• I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Desire

• When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Moments
  • Imagination
  • Challenge

• I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Children
  • True

• The number of saints, a synod without desire, From God the divine prophesy. In every tongue they compose, About the earth they were, And so many wisely prophesied Christ, and before he was, they were.

  

  Taliesin
  • God
  • Earth
  • Desire

• There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Life
  • Death
  • Dream

• Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • World
  • Different
  • American

• Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Experience
  • Past
  • Imagination

• But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

  

  Diana Krall
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• My findings have demonstrated that an optimal micronutrient intake reduces the desire for calories and reduces body temperature and white blood cell counts.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Desire

• Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Taken
  • Greatness

• We, as a league, we have not in any way changed our desire to do everything we can to make it safe, make it safe as to head injury. We hope and will support any data that would give us more insight into any short- and long-term consequences. We would support that.

  

  Jerry Jones
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Support

• I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had hope. And all of a sudden, I see that being dissolved, and I see, as a country, as a people, we are a republic. We are a democracy.

  

  Craig T. Nelson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Desire
  • Habit
  • Enhances

• The medieval student had to be paleographer, editor, and publisher of the authors he read. (p. 109)

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Real
  • Home
  • Nice

• Titles are an important part of a story and I take considerable care in choosing one. In fact, I cannot start a story until I have chosen a title.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Important

• Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Desire
  • Imagination
  • Greatness