Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes

I didn't change the world.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

Just because something is working today doesn't mean it will work forever.

The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.

Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today.

You can't be the fastest gun in town forever. There comes a time when you're not the golden boy, and you have to go off somewhere and figure yourself out.

Things don't always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That's when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them.

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

I would also hope that readers receive a larger understanding, or a different understanding, of what it means to be human, than they might have had before. We suffer from being quick to judge, quick to make excuses for ourselves and others, and I would like the reader to feel that we are all, more or less, in a similar state as we love and disappoint one another, and that we try, most of us, as best we can, and that to fail and succeed is what we do.

I just stood there, looking at her. My head was spinning, my mouth dry, and all I could think about was that I wanted to go someplace safe, someplace I could be alone and okay, and that this was impossible. My old life had changed and my new one was still in progress, altering by the second. There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

If there wasn't any competition, I'd be very worried, because it would mean we were not doing very well.

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitude and expectations. If we feel that our environment could stand some improvement, we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude. The world plays no favorites. It's impersonal. It doesn't care who succeeds and who fails. Nor does it care if we change. Our attitude toward life doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us.

Success in life is defined by how well you deal with plan B.

Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.