Eric Thomas Quotes
The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities.
Quotes to Explore
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
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Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
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I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
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I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
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I can't act without music very well.
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I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.
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If I wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, I must not fix my mind on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to me... If I wish to extricate myself from a dangerous position, I must consider not only the enemy's ability to injure me, but also my own ability to gain an advantage over the enemy.
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You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
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When deciding what to do, take advantage of the strengths of where you are.
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The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities.
