Handicaps Quotes - Page 3

• Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty

  Harry Chapin

  Writing, Kids, Guitar

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?

  Seth Godin

  Mirrors, Epidemiology, Elements

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you know, Van Gogh. And at the other end of the spectrum, you got much more severe handicaps where they never learn to speak.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Autism, Valleys

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I love going to churches, but the one drawback is that I don't actually believe in God. And it is quite a handicap, you know.

  Nick Lowe

  Believe, Church, Different

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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• Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Two, Different

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• You have to watch your handicap. My son Steve says, "Never make a putt you don't have to."

  Jack Nicklaus

  Son, Watches, My Son

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Realizing, Persons

  John C. Maxwell (2008). “Make Today Count: The Secret of Your Success Is Determined by Your Daily Agenda”, p.93, Hachette UK

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• The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World.

  Henri Nouwen

  Believe, Unique, Blessing

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Handicaps are mindsets. Whatever it is that stands in the way of achieving something, that's when it's a handicap. I prefer to see them as obstacles or challenges. This is how I've been my whole life.  I don't know any different. I just live my life through my feet.

  Jessica Cox

  Feet, Challenges, Way

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• Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Vision, Doe

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• One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

  Federico Fellini

  Motivational, Mistake, Moving

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• Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.

  Robert Genn

  Style, Fine, Decent

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• Community life is not easy for somebody like me, who is used to living by himself and doing what he wants. It's a demanding life, and you quickly get in touch with your own handicaps and weaknesses.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Want, Weakness

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

  Ann Voskamp

  Blogging, Figures, I Can

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Knowledge, Science, Routine

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• To me, dance is an extraordinary thing, more extraordinary than most people usually think. Dance preceded writing, speaking and music. When mute people speak their body language, it is true speaking rather than handicap, this is the first word and the first writing. Thus to me, the body is fundamental.

  Paul Virilio

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn't really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen's, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap.

  Bobby Flay

  Jobs, School, Home

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• The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Men, Long, Excellence

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• my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Hair, My Family, Social

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.180, Essential Library

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• I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of an empire, you are incapable of learning from the mistakes of past empires.

  Niall Ferguson

  Mistake, Past, Thinking

  "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of unlikely situation. For example: The retarded gynecologist, the retarded Jesus, the retarded Osama Bin Laden. It works. It's funny. Inappropriate? I dunno. I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of what crosses the line of good taste being that I am retarded. Socially perhaps, but severly retarded.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Jesus, Judging, Lines

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• Each person begins life with a head start in some areas and a handicap in other areas.

  Daniel Lapin

  Persons, Head Start, Areas

  Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2009). “Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons

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• Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Golf, Two, Goal

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• Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mad, World, Sanity

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• All of us are prone to excuse our own mediocre performance. We blame our misfortunes, our disfigurements, our so-called handicaps. Victims of our own rationalization, we say silently to ourselves, 'I'm just too weak,' or 'I'm not cut out for better things.' Others soar beyond our meager accomplishments. Envy and discouragement take their toll. .

  Thomas S. Monson

  Cutting, Accomplishment, Envy

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