Avery Sunshine famous quotes

Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.
-- Avery Sunshine

#Thinking #Talking #Language Barriers

Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.
-- Avery Sunshine

#People #Done #Want

It means a lot to be compared to Eric Roberson. He's a hero of mine.
-- Avery Sunshine

#Hero #Mean #Eric

Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure out what could be lost in translation. It goes directly to the pit of your soul. I think that's what music was intended to do.
-- Avery Sunshine

#Thinking #Worry #Soul

The stage is not for me to practice. I'm not that artist. You practice at home and when you get on stage, it's time for a conversation.
-- Avery Sunshine

#Home #Artist #Practice

I hope to shine through my transparency and just let people know that we are all the same. I want children to look at things different like "You're shining too! You just shine in a different way."
-- Avery Sunshine

#Children #People #Shining

I think we have to be careful saying what we will never do, because what we do is we limit what God has for us by saying what we will never ever do. A lot of times, we miss the right companion, job, or opportunity because we say we won't ever.
-- Avery Sunshine

#Opportunity #Thinking #Missing

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.