- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Person Quotes
On character, focus and what makes a person who they are.
These quotes describe personal identity in different lights: spirituality that exists outside organized religion, competitiveness aimed inward rather than at others, and the wide or narrow focus people bring to their goals. For more, see our I Am quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.
- Appearance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.
- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a policy oriented person. I'm constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
- Four-Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes - not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they're looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.
- Commencement
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a deeply superficial person.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am a shy person.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm on a mission. If I can make even one person not enjoy something they're currently enjoying, it's all worth it!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020