John Wooden Quotes

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

John Wooden

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• The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Earth
  • Day
  • Worry

• I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.

  

  Yuna
  • Want
  • Challenges
  • Fake

• I've been doing African dance all my life.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Life
  • Dance
  • My Life

• It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Sick
  • Profound

• Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Money
  • Idea

• When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Become
  • Civilized

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Word
  • Ownership
  • Possessions

• I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • She
  • Mom
  • Marriage

• I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Value

• The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Song
  • Start

• It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Think
  • Best
  • U.S.

• When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movies
  • Everything
  • Learned

• Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Read
  • Hear

• I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Church

• The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think they would also see a deeper violence - the one that's not as showy or as immediately arresting, but kind of the more unsolvable violence that lurks underneath.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Violence

• I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Thinking
  • Responsibility
  • Tears

• The success of the long-established relationship between the liberal/socialist/progressives and the Black Talented Tenth has been due to their commonality in commitment to an ideology and self-aggrandizement above all else.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Long
  • Success
  • Black

• I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

  

  David Walliams
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Fear

• Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

  

  John Wooden
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Courage