Eric Thomas Quotes

You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice.

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• To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Powerful
  • Start
  • Name

• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Important
  • Conservation

• We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Decisions
  • Tools
  • Data

• We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Black
  • Color
  • Censorship

• I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Weakness
  • Disaster
  • Sequence

• When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Success

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Line

• People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Belt

• I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Political
  • Path
  • Economic

• I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Young
  • Minds
  • Toes

• I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Live
  • Chicago
  • Kid

• Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Country
  • Government
  • Opportunities

• Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Either

• The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Great
  • Influence
  • Welcome

• One by one the tribe swung down from their arboreal retreats and formed a circle about Tarzan and his vanquished foe. When they had all come Tarzan turned toward them. 'I am Tarzan,' he cried. 'I am a great killer. Let all respect Tarzan of the Apes and Kala, his mother. There be none among you as mighty as Tarzan. Let his enemies beware.'

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Respect

• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Same
  • Stock

• I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

  

  Kelli O'Hara

• But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party- whose members for the most part come from the ghetto- seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people's language.

  

  Bobby Seale
  • People
  • Party
  • Ghetto

• The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins of your father. America, and particularly New York, runs on the idea that history doesn't matter. There is no history. There is only the never-ending present. You don't even have your family because you moved here to get away from them, so even that idea of personal history has been cut at the knees.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Father
  • Past
  • Running

• Of course, a decision to take no action at a particular meeting does not preclude action at subsequent meetings.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Action
  • Decision
  • Meetings

• You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Decision
  • Advice