Don Yaeger Quotes
Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. He's built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.
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My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.
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When all else fails, complicate matters.
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Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
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My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
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Being chaotic isn't cute.
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The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
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In rural North Carolina, you can get lots of great advice about how to clean and quarter a deer carcass, but we didn't really have anyone to ask for video advice, so we just kept learning through trial and error.
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I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.
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I've never regretted anything I've ever done.
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I felt confident at 24, but I am a better driver now.
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Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. He's built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.
