George Karl Quotes

Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.

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• What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Mind
  • Compassion
  • Results

• You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Tough

• I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Mind
  • Childhood
  • Jazz

• In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Music
  • Power

• My life was pretty rough.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • My Life

• Just because I might be bored doesn't mean I have to look boring. I'd rather look fabulous, like I'm having a great time.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time
  • Great
  • Bored

• It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old and young, are spiritual and sensitive, tender and gentle. They have a kind, nurturing nature. This is your inheritance. Never belittle the gifts God has given to you. Develop the divinity that is within you.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • God
  • Women
  • Nature

• I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

  

  Eric Cantona

• Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • Feeling
  • Communication

• The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can't deal with the undersides of wrists.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • People

• I am in that position where I finish something, it goes out, and I'm onto the next thing. I finish it, it goes out, onto the next thing.

  

  Jamie Hewlett Gorillaz

• If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Life
  • Long
  • Real

• A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

  

  Kurt Huber
  • High
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Without game, men prey on each other.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
  • Men
  • Game

• There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.

  

  Marcel Theo Hall
  • People
  • Different

• Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Reading

• For me, open source is a moral thing.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Moral

• It's hard to make music when you're not excited about it. So trying new things and going for new things is something that I can enjoy doing.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Music
  • Trying

• Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Done
  • Painful

• I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Done
  • Mean

• The '90s were a party, I mean definitely maybe not for the grunge movement, but people were partying harder in the '90s than they were in the '80s. The '90s was Ecstasy, the '80s was yuppies. There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the '90s.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Heart
  • Mean
  • Helping

• Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.

  

  George Karl
  • Mean
  • Humans
  • Basketball