Phil Jackson Quotes

The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.

Phil Jackson

• Great
• Player
• Performance
• Colleagues

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • World
  • New
  • Saying

• People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Celebrity

• I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Hate
  • Care
  • Positive

• Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

  

  E. L. James
  • Time
  • Children
  • Job

• We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Strength
  • Both
  • Femininity

• I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Darkness

• I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Moments

• When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.

  

  Finn Jones
  • School
  • Dark
  • Drama

• And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Love
  • House

• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • People
  • Technology
  • Better

• Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Progress
  • Lifting

• I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Believe
  • Atheist

• Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Up
  • Focus

• The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Age
  • Small
  • Team

• Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Fear

• I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• It was a great pitch. It was the right pitch. He just went out of the strike zone to get it. That's what great hitters do.

  

  Joe Mays
  • Great
  • Pitch
  • Strike

• My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Line

• When I feel like work and life are both going well, I feel like I can be fully present at both. I think the reminder to me is that both are super important, and I need to be able to feel like I can experience both in the way that makes me happiest. If I'm not happy in one or the other, it really affects the other side.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Women
  • She

• The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Great
  • Player
  • Performance