Eric Thomas Quotes
That most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want it badder than you wanna party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep!
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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
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I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
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It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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Why should we add your book to the atomic weapons arrayed against us by our enemies. Publication of your book would help our enemies.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
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Your President is now the Tribune of the people, and, thank God, I am, and intend to assert the power which the people have placed in me... Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
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Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.
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I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.
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People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.
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I don't even have a clue as to where to find a pregnancy test. I'm looking at all the aisles... they don't have one that says 'oops.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
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Parents go to sleep early. This is universal.
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That most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want it badder than you wanna party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep!
