Eric Thomas Quotes

You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average.

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• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Me
  • Born
  • Playing

• I just love playing in major championships.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Playing
  • Major
  • Championships

• Yes, I love playing Mom.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Love
  • Mom
  • Playing

• I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • History
  • Speak
  • Playing

• My biggest fear in life is to be average.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Average

• My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Career
  • Games
  • Playing

• I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Playing
  • Started
  • Trumpet

• My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Playing
  • Cute
  • Image

• I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Action
  • Playing

• We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia now.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Playing
  • Australia
  • Rugby

• The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Age
  • Small
  • Wedding

• They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Why
  • Golf
  • Playing

• I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Voice
  • Audience
  • Playing

• I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Average

• I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Playing

• I think he looks comfortable playing. That's the one thing I felt last year - that he didn't look comfortable playing.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Playing

• They're playing at a very high level. They're still there as far as going after the record. A lot of things can go down in the second half of the season, but they are very good.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Good
  • High
  • Playing

• I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • End

• People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Chance

• As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• I've grown up with racism my entire life. I've been bullied, sent to the hospital, beat up, I've been called a Chink and a Gook. Every single racial slur an Asian person can be called, I've been called it.

  

  Arden Cho
  • Racism
  • Grown-Up
  • Asian

• I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Women
  • Want
  • Know

• You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Playing
  • Average