John Wooden Quotes

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

John Wooden

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• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Kindness

• Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Afraid
  • Republican
  • Sides

• A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Nice

• In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Women
  • You
  • Sexy

• I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Pretty
  • Strong
  • Myself

• When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • World
  • Kind

• As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Football
  • Share
  • Street

• There's this misconception in the industry that you might have to go a little lighter or skate on the surface in order to reach people - and then in your second album, you get to tell who you are.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • You
  • Reach

• Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Looking

• As with the subjects in all of my films, the incentive is left to the subject to determine on their own. I never ask someone why they say yes to me. After all, if you invited someone to join you for dinner, and they accepted your invitation, your next question wouldn't be, 'Why are you saying yes?'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Why
  • Me
  • Question

• Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Stupid
  • Hands
  • Talent

• In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Religious
  • Differences

• We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Done
  • Business
  • Relationship

• Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Imagination
  • Scary
  • Own

• For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • School
  • Book

• There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Good
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• It’s a pleasure that you don’t outgrow the anthology.

  

  M. H. Abrams

• My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.

  

  Asif Kapadia

• I love to simplify and edit the contents of just about anything, but women's closets hold particular appeal to me. I edit mine about four times a year and hold a yearly 'clothing swap' to encourage my girlfriends to do the same.

  

  Autumn Reeser
  • Women

• There's hardly a more effective way to solve the problems we face in our educational system than to reduce class size. A ratio of no more than 17 students per teacher ensures more 1-on-1 contact, better classroom discipline, you name it.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Teacher
  • Discipline

• Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.

  

  George Amos Dorsey
  • Justice
  • Humanity
  • Individual

• No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

  

  John Wooden