Eric Zorn Quotes

#1. Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you're not failing from time to time, you're not pushing yourself. And if you're not pushing yourself, you're coasting.

Eric Zorn

#2. Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.

Ellen Glasgow

#3. Don't waste your breath proclaiming what's really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.

Eric Zorn

#4. This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child ... .

Eric Zorn

#5. There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.

John De Ruiter

#6. There's a crazy lady living in your head. I hope you'll be comforted to hear that you're not alone. Most of us have an invisible inner terrible someone who says all sorts of nutty stuff that has no basis in truth.

Cheryl Strayed

#7. There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

Eric Zorn

#8. I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.

Charlie Bell

#9. Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

Eric Zorn

#10. I am slowly learning to pluck the flowers of my past from the weeds, and place them in the window where I can see them first. ~Call Me Tuesday

Leigh Byrne

#11. 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

#12. You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

Eric Zorn

#13. Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always a Reckoning, my first collection of poetry, was described by Booklist as 'keenly evocative.'

Jimmy Carter

#14. I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.

Eric Zorn

#15. Healing does not take place in the fast lane.

Angeles Arrien

#16. But a Broom-stick, perhaps you will say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head; and pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature? His Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational; his Head where his Heels should be, groveling on the Earth.

Jonathan Swift

#17. When you're surrounded by brilliant people it really is just easy to do your job.

Mathew Baynton

#18. We shake hands and part good comrades. But I have to get out of here, good fellows or no good fellows. Too much fellow feeling makes me nervous, to tell the truth.

Walker Percy

#19. To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

Dean Inge