Eric Thomas Quotes
You can be! You can have! You can do whatever you want! But you're going to have to free yourself!
Quotes to Explore
-
Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
-
All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
-
My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
-
Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
-
I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
-
If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
-
I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
-
If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
-
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
-
I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.
-
I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
-
I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
-
I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.
-
When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
-
There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
-
The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
-
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
-
I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.
-
Personally, I know how challenging it can be to find free time in today's uber-busy, espresso-chugging world to tend to our spirits, to nourish our souls.
-
Bullying is a national epidemic.
-
I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don't regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.
-
Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.
-
The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.
-
You can be! You can have! You can do whatever you want! But you're going to have to free yourself!
