Rick Pitino Quotes
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.
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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
