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Eric Davis Baseball Player
Vulnerable

“You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.”

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Eric Davis Baseball Player
Confident

“People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything.”

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Eric Davis Baseball Player
Inspired

“I was disappointed in everything - my start and the team's start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be.”

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Eric Davis Baseball Player
Hopeful

“I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.”

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Eric Davis Baseball Player
Confident

“I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?”

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Eric Davis Baseball Player
Confident

“I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.”

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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
Hopeful

“People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.”

Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
Philosophical

“I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.”

Erik Parker Artist
Creative

“Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.”

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
Grateful

“The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.”

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
Melancholic

“I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.”

Ernest Hemingway Novelist
Grateful

“Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.”

Ernest Hemingway Novelist
Thoughtful

“In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.”

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
Angry

“He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone”

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Ester Dean Songwriter, Singer
Determined

“I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present [themselves], they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat.”

Ester Dean Songwriter, Singer
Creative

“I have vision boards, and people think that I put the vision board up and I look at it all the time, but what I do is, when I'm having an emotional time and I'm stressed out or feeling bad, I go to the store and get all the stuff for a vision board. Instead of channeling the negative thoughts or being depressed, I change it around and I start making boards.”