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.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Change
  • Marathon

• Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Wisdom
  • Moral
  • Practical

• The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • You
  • Know
  • Selfish

• Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Beginning

• 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.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Baby

• I am basically a private person.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Private Person

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • History
  • Human

• 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.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Stupid

• 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.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Long

• I don't like to talk about myself.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Talk

• 'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Book
  • Top
  • Over

• It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Unknown

• 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.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Men
  • Different
  • Desire

• I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Talk
  • Fellow
  • Forbidden

• I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Pleasure
  • Criticism
  • Ways

• It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Human

• I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Learn
  • Actually
  • Had

• The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate and sustain it. So apart from him, not only will there be no lively believers and no lively congregations, there will be no believers and no congregations at all.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Supernatural

• There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • World
  • Nature
  • Single

• I pay attention to every system of conventions and expectations, above all literary conventions and the expectations they generate in readers. But that law-abiding side of me, sooner or later, has to face my disobedient side. And, in the end, the latter always wins.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Readers
  • Wins
  • Conventions

• 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.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Movement
  • Point
  • Potential