Eric Thomas Quotes

No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.

Eric Thomas

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• I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Believe
  • Positive
  • Happiness

• When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Up
  • You
  • Enemy

• Events tend to recur in cycles.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Events
  • Tend
  • Recur

• The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Never
  • Type
  • Handsome

• It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Real
  • Song
  • Me

• Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Good
  • Live
  • Money

• There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Important
  • Together
  • Party

• Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.

  

  D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The majority of my audience has always been women.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Women
  • Audience
  • Been

• In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Life
  • College
  • Better

• In the end, I was doing night shoots on 'Gilmore Girls' and then wrapping and going straight from 'Gilmore Girls' to 'Roadies.'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Night
  • End
  • Doing

• All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Men
  • Imagination

• The reason why you don't put your hand in the fire is not because of fear, it's because you know you'll get burned. You don't need fear to avoid an unnecessary danger, just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Why
  • Fear
  • Hand

• We're all human beings; people make mistakes.

  

  Marc Platt
  • People

• When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.

  

  Marta Vieira da Silva
  • Football
  • Emotional

• Bands can become absolutely huge and actually be pretty terrible musicians, and bands can be the most amazing songwriters and musicians in the world and never play for more than 10 people. With that in mind, getting successful doesn't mean anything.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Up
  • World
  • Society

• The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any.

  

  B. B. Warfield
  • God
  • Guilty

• Your career and your passion don't always match up. Plenty of talented people don't have the careers they want. Plenty of untalented people make millions and make movies. There is a difference between determination and talent.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Passion

• There really has been only one thing in my life that has made me feel complete, and that is the game of football. The ability to throw a football was my God-given talent. That was my blessing and my passion; that was my calling in live, and everything that I've accomplished has derived from that.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Passion
  • Football
  • Talent

• No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Passion
  • Needed
  • Alarm clock