Eric Thomas Quotes

When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.

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• Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present
  • Find
  • Partner

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Decision
  • Perspective

• Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Work
  • Think
  • Fine

• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Way
  • Support
  • Personal

• You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Way
  • Like
  • Shadow

• A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Think
  • Vegan

• At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Faith
  • Perfect
  • Humanity

• There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Great

• I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• It's been cool to catch up, but I think I'm done with my exes. To be honest, I went out with flying colors on the majority of them.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Up
  • Done
  • Cool

• I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd accept me.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • School
  • Tennis

• The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.

  

  Anthony Albanese
  • Help
  • Community
  • Magic

• We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • World
  • Done
  • Business

• I'm not in the teenybopper bracket, and I'm not in the 30-plus bracket. The fan response has been really widespread, age-wise.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Age
  • Wise

• Trying new things and experimenting is something I push myself to do. It's one thing to have love for all different kinds of music; it's another thing to bring them together seamlessly and make them coherent.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Music
  • Different
  • Trying

• Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • Children
  • Passion

• I'm going to continue to talk about what is important to the people of Connecticut which is jobs, getting people back to work, the economy.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Two things are vital for me. I've always had people who protected me, and I've always had people who helped me. Before I decide, I consult with three, four people who I trust.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • People
  • Me
  • Trust

• Growing up in Mississippi - a state that historically was a place of racial injustice, inequality and oppression - gave me the unique opportunity to experience first-hand the evolution of the civil rights movement through the eyes of my parents, grandparents, and the black elders of our community.

  

  Angela McGlowan
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Parents

• After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Time
  • Help

• I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity
  • Obligation