Eric Thomas Quotes

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

Eric Thomas

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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 am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Violence
  • Moral
  • King

• Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Adventure

• 'Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Soul
  • Immortality
  • Pains

• For years, people always say, "Ah, what about the dunk. It's still two points." But it energizes a team. If you're down and you get a monster dunk, everybody gets psyched. "Oh yeah, let's go, let's go." So it was dying down a little bit and guys, I think, they took it upon themselves. They got energy on it and started trying different stuff.

  

  Darryl Dawkins
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• It would have been an interesting run if we hadn't gotten along! It was good casting, I suppose.

  

  Dominic West
  • Good
  • Interesting

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

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity
  • Obligation