Eickels Quotes & Sayings

We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching screeching at each other, stop hurting each other, and instead start caring for, sacrificing for and sharing with each other ... We cannot move forward if cynics and critics swoop down and pick apart anything that goes wrong, to a point where we lose sight of what is right, decent and uniquely good about America. — Colin Powell

Repetition takes time, but it builds behaviors with fewer side effects. If you expose yourself to something over and over, it can "grow on you." You can get to like things that are good for you, even if you don't like them instantly. But who wants to repeat something over and over if it doesn't feel good? Usually, people don't, which is why we tend to rely on the circuits built by accidents of experience. You will be shaped by accident unless you start repeating things by choice. — Loretta Graziano Breuning

What fools the public were! They were exactly like sheep ... thought Mr. Abbott sleepily ... following each other's lead, neglecting one book and buying another just because other people were buying it, although, for the life of you, you couldn't see what the one lacked and the other possessed. — D.E. Stevenson

The hard way, of course. It always has to be that hard way, doesn't it? No easy paths in this life. There's nothing like losing the strongest love in the universe to realize that you can't live without it." I — Elizabeth A. Reeves

Everyone who crosses your path leaves behind something. How you use it is up to you. — Barbara Svetlick

As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is what it is - you know, your father's violent but he loves you and that's just the way it is - later on you realize that this is like different, shameful, blah blah blah. — Justin Torres

Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it. — Barbara Corcoran

Understanding is a delaying tactic. — Michael Crichton

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration. — Andrey Zvyagintsev

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to. — Phil Gramm

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. — J.B. Priestley

I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms. — Ryan Lilly

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job. — Drew Carey