John Wooden Quotes
You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don’t try to play theirs.
Quotes to Explore
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.
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Acting's boring.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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For me, I can't see Liverpool without him because he's just been there since I was a kid. I had him on the back of my shirt. He's always been on the team every time I've watched Liverpool. It's going to be really weird next season, a Steven Gerrard-less Liverpool side.
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I love running and I will always run.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.
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Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes. My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.
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To fight like we fought the majority of the game and then for that to happen to us with 4.9 seconds on the clock is just devastating.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.
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You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don’t try to play theirs.
