Eric Thomas Quotes

Success and average don't have nothing to do with each other.

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• As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Me
  • Challenges

• For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Government
  • Years
  • Canada

• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
  • Think
  • Globalization

• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • People
  • Hate
  • Things

• Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Up
  • Design
  • Philosophy

• Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Art
  • Religion
  • Spring

• In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Time
  • Back
  • Passport

• Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • More
  • Over
  • Atlas

• For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

  

  Edmund White
  • Home
  • She
  • Friends

• I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Think
  • Play
  • Lucky

• We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Moment

• When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Play

• I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll
  • Roll

• Why am I seeking logic or sanity here? I'd asked myself at the moment. There hasn’t been any so far.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Why
  • Logic

• Oh for a seat in some poetic nook,Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

  

  Leigh Hunt

• A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

  

  John Maeda
  • Together
  • Planning

• Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Great
  • Future

• If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Strange

• I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party.

  

  David Brock
  • Political
  • Party

• To understand political power aright, and derive from it its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• Success and average don't have nothing to do with each other.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Success
  • Average