Magic Johnson Quotes

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

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• Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Death
  • Goal

• I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.

  

  Yuna
  • Love
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

  

  Gabe Paul
  • Great
  • Day
  • Baseball

• The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Political

• I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think

• I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Secret

• You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Art
  • You
  • White

• They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Day

• I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Heart
  • Die

• One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • World
  • Language
  • Matter

• I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Time
  • Enemy

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Work
  • Creativity

• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Nothing

• Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Energy
  • Concept
  • Anywhere

• You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Past
  • Know
  • Survive

• I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Day
  • Gym
  • Worried

• From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Done

• To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Business
  • Today

• A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Great
  • Fun
  • You

• In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

  

  Jay Dratler
  • Attention

• Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

  

  Magic Johnson
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