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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Truth is like the town whore. Everybody knows her, but nonetheless, it's embarrassing to meet her on the street.
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Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.
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I stood in front of Sony (Music headquarters) out here, I stood right in front of the building with a jam box and a tape player, singing my heart out.
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After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.
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I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.
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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.
