Isaiah Mustafa (Isaiah Amir Mustafa) Quotes

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

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• Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Fashion
  • Out
  • Polo

• A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Trying
  • You
  • Race

• I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • World
  • Kids
  • Focus

• In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Big
  • Early

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Me
  • Fight
  • Down

• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Ugly
  • Engineering
  • Bridges

• So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Long
  • Country

• Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Know
  • Care
  • Impact

• In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Space
  • Noise
  • Vacuum

• Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

  

  Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach
  • Children

• An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Attention
  • Goods

• Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • Friend
  • Mentor

• Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • People
  • Community
  • Groups

• Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Men
  • Happiness
  • Troubles

• I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • Ability

• I've struggled with an identity sometimes; I don't know what exactly I am. I love so many types of music, and I don't want to commit to going down one road.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Music
  • Identity
  • Commit

• People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.

  

  Alex Blumberg
  • Like
  • Listening
  • Talk

• If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

  

  Isaiah Mustafa
  • Ability
  • Waste
  • Athletic