Isaac Watts Quotes

Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

Isaac Watts

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• Complaining
• Heard
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• The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.

  

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• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

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• No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

  

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• Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

  

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• It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.

  

  Washed Out
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• I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.

  

  Yani Tseng
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• Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Story
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• I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

  

  Karen Allen
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• I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • People
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• On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Impact

• What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Work
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• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  

  Quintilian
  • Impression
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• I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

  

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• Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.

  

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• If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • American
  • Crazy
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• People are living a lot longer these days and not preparing for it. I'm in the gym and, you know, using my voice.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
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• When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
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• All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Art

• Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Voice
  • Complaining
  • Heard