Eric Thomas Quotes
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Las Vegas doesn't allow tourism to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no one is willing to come to. But we can't let tourism be the reason for not taking action. Accountability is not there. As a community we can be different. We don't have to be what our visitors are. We can work at policies that will make us a vibrant healthy resort community.
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Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world.
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I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”
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Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.
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Don't quit. You're already in pain. You're already hurt. Get a reward from it!
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The truth is that momentum, in the sense in which we are discussing, is a feeling, and if it's a feeling, that means we have the ability to have it on our side at all times if we so choose.
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You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.
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When you leave this earth, accomplish every single thing you could accomplish.
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Every time I am on the field I am a threat to make a big play. I am going to do my job every day and can be relied upon.
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You can't quit or give up before you get it!
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When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.
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It's not about where you come from, it's about heart.
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I want to change as many lives as I can, I want to help as many people as I can and I want to let people know that serving and doing for people is not outdated and certainly not overrated!
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This is your moment! Seize the opportunity to be great!
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Your success is not dependent upon a board of advisers, it's not dependent upon motivational speakers who've gone before you,they're living their lives, they're taking care of their family, they're doing what they have to do to be successful, nobody owes you anything, that was the biggest lesson for me.
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If you ready to take your game to the next level, you gotta change that mindset.
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When you're excited about what you do, and nobody gotta give you a dime, that's next level.
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You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.
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My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!
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You don't get out of life what you want. You get out of life who you are.
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I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!
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We live in a society that says "You Gotta get yours" and I'm not suggesting that you don't handle your business but I want to show people... Gandhi gave, Mother Theresa gave, Martin Luther King gave, Rosa Parks gave, Sojourner Truth gave, and these people had a rich life! They may have not had a Rolls Royce, Range Rover, or lived in the best neighborhoods but they changed history forever and they changed lives forever and that's what I aim to do.
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I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!
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Be phenomenal or be forgotten!