Eli Quotes

Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.

With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.

I go through life with a smile because I know things can be worse than they are.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment.

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

I've always been a player and a person who wanted to be the best at whatever he did.

Money isn't always going to make it happen. It's important to be around people that have the right kind of attitude, being happy about what you're doing.

You can't join a team and give up on it because you lose a few games or things aren't going well.

My idea is, I shine, you shine. If I'm doing well and you're with me, you do well.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.

Be committed to whatever you're doing. That's something I've taken to heart and tried to do with whatever activities I take up.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

I've been a leader practically my whole life. I don't know what it is to follow.

It's all about having fun. Play hard and fair, don't hurt anybody. Feel good about what you're doing and how you're doing it.

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

I'll bring what I bring to the tale, but it's good to know you have two guys with the experience and know-how in big games.

I don't act to live. I live to act.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

I'm no Bob Gibson. I can tell you that.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.