John Wooden Quotes

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

John Wooden

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• Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Technology

• Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Mean
  • Living
  • Tradition

• Europe can be saved.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Europe
  • Saved

• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Pleasure

• I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Band

• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Strength
  • Graceful
  • Elves

• I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • American
  • Tea

• I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • City
  • Myself
  • Process

• The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Change
  • Oil
  • Climate Change

• I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Being

• If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Day

• There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fear

• I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Believe
  • Light
  • Ocean

• I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • School
  • History
  • Always

• One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Most
  • Talented
  • Brian

• Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Movie
  • Two
  • Before

• The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Attitude
  • Circumstances

• I cook all the time. It's a passion of mine. Mostly, I eat clean, unprocessed food, a lot of vegetables, and protein. I work out daily; at home, I row and do yoga and P90x. At the gym I work out with my friend and trainer Ben Dussault at the Anchored Social Club, focusing on balance and strength. Whenever I can get outside, I love stand-up paddle boarding, surfing, and cycling.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Time
  • Passion
  • Mine

• ...a woman without love for her origins is lost.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Origins

• We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate.

  

  Kenneth R. Miller
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Cool

• If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Important
  • Learning
  • Advice

• I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

  

  John Wooden