Eliot Wigginton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.
-- Eliot Wigginton

#Business #Chance #Broke
I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life.
-- Eliot Wigginton

#Laughter #Children #Real
Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative
-- Eliot Wigginton

#Teaching #Lazy #Occupation

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.
One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.

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