Phil Jackson Quotes
Coaching is about, "How do I get people to play at their peak level?" It is a spiritual quest. And if it's not that, you don't have a challenge, you don't have a mission. Forming a brotherhood and trying to move it forward - that's what coaching is.
Quotes to Explore
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Women are sacred.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.
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And you know, the people who hate kids and don't want kids always end up having 50 of them.
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Growing up, I just loved movies. It was how I saw the world, which I wanted to learn more about.
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Collaboration to me is... my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it's just that thing that happens when the only thing left that is left on the human scale is that human beings come to look at other human beings act out stories.
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I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.
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Coaching is about, "How do I get people to play at their peak level?" It is a spiritual quest. And if it's not that, you don't have a challenge, you don't have a mission. Forming a brotherhood and trying to move it forward - that's what coaching is.
