Phil Jackson Quotes
The more you draw attention to it, the worse it becomes. So it's better just to show up and swallow your pride.
Quotes to Explore
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I hate competition.
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.
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You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
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My journey is about believing that people will actually stick around. It's a hard thing to believe when you don't have a prototype for it. I've had to develop that for myself.
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Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, 'Is there something I can do for you?' I used to answer with 'Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.'
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The more you draw attention to it, the worse it becomes. So it's better just to show up and swallow your pride.
