"Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history."

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Source : John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.97, Diversion Books

John Eliot

#Critics Quotes #Exceptional Quotes #Thinker Quotes

“Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.”
“I love traffic. It's fantastic. New York traffic is so relaxing”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer. And so, you know, sort of my initial pursuits into the arts and that I was going to pursue film as a career didn't confuse them, but it was definitely something that they were scared about.”
“I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.”
“I always look ahead, to the side, but never back.”

Source : Sonny Barger (2009). “Freedom: Credos from the Road”, p.3, Harper Collins
“Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.”
“I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened.”

Source : "Colin Hanks gets "Lucky" with killer film, TV show". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. July 15, 2011.
“Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.”

Source : John Wilder Tukey, David Roxbee Cox, Henry I. Braun (1994). “The Collected Works of John W. Tukey: Philosophy and principles of data analysis, 1949-1964”

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