Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) Quotes
There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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I stopped caring what people thought.
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Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
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I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.
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Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
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Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.
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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
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I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.
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Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may.
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My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'
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I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist.
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There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable
