Paul Eddington quotes

Paul Eddington quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be 'He did very little harm'. And that's not easy. Most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little, that would suit me.”
-- Paul Eddington

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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“Think it over, think it under.”
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”
“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.”
“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”
“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
“I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.”
“I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.”
“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
“The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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