Eric Weiner Quotes

The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases of creativity - is when you're not consciously thinking of a problem, and you're letting it marinate. So this is why you hear time and again, people saying they had that "Eureka" moment in the bath, like Archimedes, or in the shower, or while going for a walk or in a coffeehouse.

Eric Weiner

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• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Family
  • Know
  • Run

• The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • God
  • Love
  • Funny

• Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Food
  • Simple
  • Spices

• I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Job
  • Day
  • Thought

• Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Me
  • Walking

• I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Like
  • Kid
  • Cheese

• On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Know
  • Improvement
  • Go

• I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.

  

  Feist
  • Think
  • Know
  • Attention

• I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Morning

• I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Constantly

• But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

  

  Little Richard
  • Rock
  • Rock N Roll
  • Occupation

• My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Respect
  • Friend
  • Capacity

• Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Sex

• It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • House
  • Alone
  • Boy

• A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Feeling
  • Confidence
  • Growth

• Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Freedom
  • Know
  • Oppression

• The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Power
  • Future

• You have psychopaths and sociopaths in charge.

  

  Gerald Celente
  • Charge
  • Psychopaths
  • Sociopaths

• The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases of creativity - is when you're not consciously thinking of a problem, and you're letting it marinate. So this is why you hear time and again, people saying they had that "Eureka" moment in the bath, like Archimedes, or in the shower, or while going for a walk or in a coffeehouse.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Problem
  • Creative Act
  • Incubation