Eric Thomas Quotes
You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life; at some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your movement.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
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I am basically a private person.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
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I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
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I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.
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It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.
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I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
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You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life; at some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your movement.
