Phil Jackson Quotes

You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves.

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• I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Real
  • Done

• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Face
  • Overcoming

• That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Amazing
  • White

• People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Reality
  • Movies

• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• I think that governments are going to get disrupted by the blockchain. I think in the same way that the Internet forced everyone to evolve, the Blockchain is going to change the game again.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Game
  • Change
  • Same

• When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.

  

  Callum Blue
  • People
  • Red
  • Hell

• My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • School
  • Love

• I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Small
  • Change
  • Theory

• Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Desire
  • Pressure

• I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Hair
  • Hat

• It is important not to trust people too much.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Important
  • Trust

• I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Writing
  • Myself

• Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Business
  • Fashion

• I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind there.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • People
  • Mind

• I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God is there," "God is there." "Your god is not my god, and that's all." But the pious man, he just looks out with awe, and says, "where is God?" And "well, I don't understand it and I would like to know what this creation really means." That is a pious man, who is really touched by the greatness of nature and of the creation.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Religious

• I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Political

• You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • People
  • Change
  • Force