Nelson Shanks (John Nelson Shanks) Quotes

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

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• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Good
  • Surprised
  • Coup

• As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • True
  • High
  • Organization

• It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difficult
  • Loves
  • Unjust

• I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Time
  • World
  • American

• Von has a lot of game. He is an aggressive player, but sometimes it is good to have a wild horse out there who can push guys and challenge people.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Game

• We learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal in us and the power of our imagination

  

  Ohad Naharin
  • Power
  • Passion
  • Imagination

• My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Live
  • Small
  • Die

• The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

  

  Dee Brown
  • Book
  • Secret
  • Library

• We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Direct
  • Tension
  • Creators

• Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Duty
  • Laws
  • Obey

• He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.

  

  Plutarch
  • Life
  • Land
  • Trusted

• The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.

  

  Aubrey Daniels
  • Consequences
  • Keep Going
  • Antecedents

• The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Love
  • Weakness
  • Greatest

• There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Against
  • France
  • Attack

• The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize.

  

  David Perkins
  • Learning
  • Weakness
  • Coaching

• If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

  

  Nelson Shanks
  • Weakness
  • Technique
  • Attack