Eric Weiner Quotes

When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

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• The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Heart
  • Car
  • Cancer

• I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Experience

• There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Musicians

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • You
  • Happiness
  • Process

• For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Water
  • Myself

• It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Future
  • Today
  • Past

• By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Beginning
  • Picture
  • End

• You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • People
  • You
  • Like

• I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Country
  • Calm
  • Fundamental

• I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Great
  • Book
  • Brain

• I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Growing
  • Loss

• It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Life
  • Fame
  • Degree

• Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Character
  • Play
  • Story

• Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Job
  • American
  • Man

• Never talk when you can nod and never nod when you can wink and never write an e-mail, because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Death
  • Giving

• Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Single
  • Learning
  • Miracle

• I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Family
  • Society
  • Question

• Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Luxury
  • Vanity
  • Income

• Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Death
  • Disgrace

• I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Approach
  • Institutions
  • Ritual

• I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Powerful
  • Intelligent
  • Villain

• At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Work
  • Coffee
  • Break

• When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Genius
  • Coffee
  • Focused