Eric Thomas Quotes

Don't quit. You're already in pain. You're already hurt. Get a reward from it!

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• Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Feel

• I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Myself

• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Summer

• As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Talk
  • Wear
  • Soon

• I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.

  

  Halsey
  • Me
  • Running
  • City

• Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Beauty

• Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Girl
  • Confidence

• There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • May

• And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

  

  Frederic Bastiat
  • World
  • Heart
  • Education

• It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • People
  • Up
  • Guy

• You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.

  

  Jimmy Iovine

• When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.

  

  Charles McCarry
  • Organization

• Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

  

  Ben Lindsey
  • Great
  • Jesus

• You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.

  

  Chanel Iman
  • Life
  • Small

• I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Funny

• The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

  

  John Bright
  • Real
  • Power

• I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.

  

  Max Weinberg
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.

  

  David Sanborn
  • People
  • Music

• One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

  

  Susan Ertz
  • Troubles
  • Sufferings
  • Fortitude

• I enjoy getting any kind of mail. Like, for me, like, the more interesting a letter is, I just get more excited, and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• I'm not sure if it was entirely sadness that caused the tears, but there was so much love. And that's all that mattered. Despite the fear, despite the sadness, despite the pain, there was love.

  

  Esther Earl
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Tears

• When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Beginning
  • Enemy
  • Stories

• Don't quit. You're already in pain. You're already hurt. Get a reward from it!

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Pain
  • Reward
  • Quit