Eli Quotes

You know your goals and what you need to do to get better-just eliminate the bad plays.

We're only here for one reason: to wake up... To realize yourself doesn't mean you are perfect as a human being. It means you are willing to bear the imperfections and not sell out to them.

Reality is all that which can affect one.

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

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

My approach never changes from start to start.

The pitch count situatio-it doesn't matter if you throw 120 or 80, whatever. It's the quality of pitches that you throw.

No, we believed in ourselves all year. That's the position you want to be in.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

I'm just trying to take what the defense gives me.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

I think big-that's what my mother taught me. If you think small and accomplish it, what does it mean? Who cares? To me the sky's the limit, and I'm going to try and get there.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.

I leave my heart on the court every night. I earn my keep.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

I'm going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential.