Top 100 Eric Lau Quotes

#1. I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

Michael Eric Dyson

#2. There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

Eric Thomas

#3. Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

Eric Kripke

#4. Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

Eric Maisel

#5. The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.

Eric Butterworth

#6. My back's not big enough for the number of targets on it.

Eric Swalwell

#7. If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is.

Eric Bana

#8. At its core, every battle worth fighting is a spiritual battle. Those men were able to succeed only because they humbled themselves and entrusted the battle to God. But

Eric Metaxas

#9. The ideal is not believing in, but believing from.

Eric Butterworth

#10. If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.

Eric Schmidt

#11. My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They're loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, 'The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.' Funny thought.

Brendon Urie

#12. The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

Eric Ries

#13. The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

Eric Maskin

#14. Listen to me. I said you need to strive to better than everyone else. I didn't say you needed to be better than everyone else. But you gotta try. That's what character is. It's in the try.

Eric Taylor

#15. [In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

Eric Gagne

#16. From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.

Eric Burdon

#17. If you focus on your competition, you will never deliver anything truly innovative.

Eric Schmidt

#18. I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!

Eric Thomas

#19. As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#20. Very few checklist liberals will focus on transformational work if they are rewarded or punished only for their transactional work.

Eric Schneiderman

#21. A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.

Eric Hoffer

#22. I think Eric Bana would be a good Superman. He's got that look. I think he'd be a great Superman.

Lou Ferrigno

#23. Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#24. liking someone is easy but loving someone is beyond difficult

Eric Ryan

#25. You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

Eric Fellner

#26. I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.

Eric Stoltz

#27. To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

Eric S. Raymond

#28. A well crafted life is like a good poem. What is left out tells others every bit as much about you as what is added in.

Eric Vance Walton

#29. I had no idea the amount of people who even knew who I was. Suddenly, they were coming up and saying, "You're my favorite artist." Very surreal. After years of trying to get work, and then coming here and being able to meet some of the fans of Array.

Eric Wight

#30. Go Fast! Go Hard! Finish! And Win the Day!

Eric Thomas

#31. One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.

Eric Balfour

#32. It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that.

Eric Davis

#33. Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.

Eric Chaisson

#34. Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion , a truth , a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.

Eric Hoffer

#35. Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

Eric Cantona

#36. If Christ is the head of the church and we are the body, lets be disciples who master the noise.

Eric Samuel Timm

#37. I've never seen 'The Goonies.' I've never seen 'Indiana Jones.' I watched 'UHF' over and over again when I was little, and that was it. I had no time for any other movies. I watched 'Naked Gun,' 'UHF,' and 'Airplane!' over and over.

Eric Andre

#38. If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.

Eric Schmidt

#39. By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.

Michael Eric Dyson

#40. In modern times, nationalism is the most copious and durable source of mass enthusiasm, and that nationalist fervor must be tapped if the drastic changes projected and initiated by revolutionary enthusiasm are to be consummated.

Eric Hoffer

#41. So far as I am aware no leader of a party of the European left in the past twenty-five years has declared capitalism as such to be unacceptable as a system. The only public figure to do so unhesitatingly was Pope John Paul II.

Eric Hobsbawm

#42. It almost contradicts itself," she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.

Eric Morgenstern

#43. Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

Eric Drooker

#44. If you can look up, you can get up.

Eric Thomas

#45. I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day.

Eric Cantor

#46. We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.

Eric Ries

#47. The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

Eric Kandel

#48. Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Eric Zorn

#49. We are made kind by being kind.

Eric Hoffer

#50. Taking a break can lead to breakthroughs.

Russell Eric Dobda

#51. No matter what you put into the journal, it becomes a reflection of who you are, who you think you are and who you want to be.

Eric M. Scott

#52. But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.

Eric McCormack

#53. You need to have confidence in your people, and enough self-confidence to let them identify a better way.

Eric Schmidt

#54. When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work ... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.

Eric Maisel

#55. There is no genius...only marketing.

Eric Bickernicks

#56. Anger is a prelude to courage.

Eric Hoffer

#57. Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.

Eric Gamalinda

#58. The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.

Eric Hoffer

#59. Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

Eric Topol

#60. In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#61. The Communist Manifesto as political rhetoric has an almost biblical force.

Eric Hobsbawm

#62. 'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.

Eric Clapton

#63. All my devotion is an insult to God unless every bit of my practical life squares with Jesus Christ's demands.

Eric Ludy

#64. My whole background as a social worker has allowed me to understand human behavior in difficult situations. Working in Kenya, I see the most desperate situations - things I could never believe possible - and then have to try to find solutions.

Eric Walters

#65. Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America

Eric Hoffer

#66. I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

Eric Bana

#67. Hiestand from Lead User Concepts. Thank you so much for the huge (and often humbling) insights that your and our field experimentation has provided! I am also eager to acknowledge and thank my family for the

Eric Von Hippel

#68. So change your mindset. Change how you see pain. I want you to welcome it!

Eric Thomas

#69. It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

Eric Linklater

#70. Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

Eric Gill

#71. A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't being hypocritical - they said slavery is the foundation of freedom because if you own slaves, you are freer yourself.

Eric Foner

#72. engineers agree to adapt the product to the business's constantly changing requirements but are not responsible for the quality of those business decisions.

Eric Ries

#73. Probably no other country in the 1920s - certainly not the United States, with its stark repression of the Left, vicious antiunion policies, and legally enshrined racism - had so wide a range of free speech, such a vital public sphere, as Germany.

Eric D. Weitz

#74. Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view ... Make a spectacle of yourself.

Eric Maisel

#75. A world of possibilities is revealed in this gallery of bread.

Eric Treuille

#76. Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

Eric Alterman

#77. Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#78. Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.

Eric Hobsbawm

#79. I look up at Eric,sniffing "I tried to...and..."I shake my head.
"You tired to what?" asks Eric
"Kiss me," says Tobias. "And I rejected her,and she went running off like a five-year-old. there's really nothing to blame her for but stupidity.

Veronica Roth

#80. Bonhoeffer's rule never to speak about a brother in his absence. Bonhoeffer knew that living according to what Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount was not "natural" for anyone.

Eric Metaxas

#81. Sometimes the answers you need to hear aren't the answers you want to hear.

Eric Samuel Timm

#82. Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.

Eric Holder

#83. I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.

Eric Schmidt

#84. Give me a puzzle to solve. Let me see if I can solve it.

Eric Berlin

#85. A technical insight is a new way of applying technology or design that either drives down the cost or increases the functions and usability of the product by a significant factor.

Eric Schmidt

#86. The major cause of problems are solutions

Eric Sevareid

#87. Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!

Eric Ludy

#88. It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

Eric Maisel

#89. Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show.

Eric Carr

#90. The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

Eric Alterman

#91. I'm wise enough to realize that I'm not nearly wise enough.

Eric Vance Walton

#92. It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#93. I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

Dhani Harrison

#94. Great businessmen are creators.

Eric Cantona

#95. It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default.

Eric Bolling

#96. Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust.

Eric Schneiderman

#97. Many markets work best with little or no outside interference. But others - especially those subject to big 'externalities' - need a helping hand.

Eric Maskin

#98. You don't even need a computer plugged into the back of your head to be hopelessly dependent on the system.

Russell Eric Dobda

#99. If I do a picture, I want the audience to be the people I was just packed against on the subway or on the street, walking on Fourteenth Street. I don't want it to be some narrow public that I myself feel alienated from.

Eric Drooker

#100. Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.

Eric Idle

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