John Wooden Quotes

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

John Wooden

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• When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • History
  • Science

• I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Always

• Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Touch

• I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Man
  • Find
  • Looking

• If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Financial
  • News
  • Enthralled

• To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Honest

• I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Acting
  • Doing
  • Worst

• When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

  

  Imelda May
  • Sun
  • Mad
  • Heard

• Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Look
  • Chicago
  • Arizona

• New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • New
  • Construction
  • Glass

• The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

  

  Yves Tanguy
  • Reason
  • Painting
  • Liberty

• Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • World
  • Better

• In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Beautiful
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • High
  • Food

• I love my country. I love my family.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Country
  • Family
  • Love

• I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Mind
  • Space

• For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Bad
  • Education

• We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Study
  • Him
  • Visited

• I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • London

• Professionally, I'm proud that Glassjaw has gotten to this moment, and that Justin Beck and I are making another record and some zany things are going on. It's on the tip of my tongue all day every day, between the press and the experience of putting ourselves out there, and putting our personalities out there to be judged and to have amassed a whole unit of music, and how it's really a celebration of our friendship. I'm really proud of it.

  

  Daryl Palumbo
  • Moments
  • Personality
  • Celebration

• When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free.

  

  Barbara Marciniak
  • Free
  • Laugh
  • Creations

• A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

  

  John Wooden