Isaac Slade (Isaac Edward Slade) Quotes
I can't really speak for the guys, but for me, I think I want a build a longer-term career and I feel like we've been really fortunate to have some big success with a few things, but I want smaller success with more things.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
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A beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
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I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect. Most people opt for the easiest version rather than the best.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.
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I can't really speak for the guys, but for me, I think I want a build a longer-term career and I feel like we've been really fortunate to have some big success with a few things, but I want smaller success with more things.
