Eric Church Quotes

They said just keep doing my thing, don't try to change anything, which I won't.

I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.

The gap is not between knowing it and living it, it's between knowing it and living it consistently. You know, we've all had moments when we got it right. Most of us have moments when we get it right every day. The trouble is getting it right when a curve-ball comes at us.

If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.

... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

You have to be un-compromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared. Commitment cannot be compromised by rewards.

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me a while to find the moment, and I like to be pushed toward it.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

People just put out stuff that has nothing to do with me sometimes and I'm just like, "What is that?" It's here today, gone tomorrow. It don't really throw me off my path 'cause I've been doing this since I was 12.

My principles and core beliefs haven't changed in many years. You know, I don't change what I think with the wind just in order to perhaps attract more people. I am what I am, believe what I believe, and I say so.

I have to do what I'm doing at the time. That's the most important thing. You might lose some people along the way, and you might gain other people on the way, that's just the way it is. But nevertheless, if you're driven by something, there is no argument about it; that's what you have to do.

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

The most important thing with me is consistency.

I have evolved over the years, just as we all have, but I definitely have stayed true to who I am.

If I'm working every day, it's like pumping a pump. When you start, rusty water comes out, and then it runs clear. I do it even if I get completely stuck.

I want to be that consistent all year. I want to play the same way all 82 games. I want to be consistent every night.

It's about consistency.

It's difficult to compete if you are not consistent.