Phil Jackson Quotes

We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.

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• Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Time
  • Day
  • Challenge

• Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Good
  • Control
  • Evil

• I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Character
  • Hurt
  • Villain

• I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Never
  • Husband
  • Sad

• When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • Best
  • Talk
  • Cards

• I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Why
  • Dream
  • Myself

• I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed to B E A because … B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed … the E to an A. And it meant two things then. … When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Music

• Everything that happens is supposed to be And it's all pre-determined, can't change your destiny Guess I'll just keep moving, someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Moving
  • Destiny

• Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Practice

• We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Job
  • Poverty
  • Priority

• Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.

  

  Jennifer Pahlka
  • Together
  • Technology

• Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Power
  • Control
  • Communication

• Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root.

  

  Ari Fleischer
  • Today
  • Small
  • Party

• In the Army, I learned how to use and respect my rifle.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Respect
  • Army

• I redo the body of my poem like someone who tries to cure her own wound.

  

  Alejandra Pizarnik

• I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

  

  Matthew Lesko
  • Society

• The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.

  

  Lucy Liu
  • Different
  • Sexy

• I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Choices
  • Better
  • Happens

• Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Rich
  • Handsome
  • Emma Woodhouse

• Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Directors
  • Harder
  • Paid

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

  

  Dan Bejar
  • Feeling
  • Audience
  • Anything

• We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Quarters