Clifton Anderson Quotes

Having the right perspective is tough when you’re alone. Surround yourself with people who will help you see things you cannot readily see.

Clifton Anderson

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• I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.

  

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• A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.

  

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• Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.

  

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• The American people, through the 35 states that have liberalized laws banning either medical marijuana, marijuana in general, or cannabinoid oils, have made it clear that federal enforcers should stay out of their personal lives. It’s time for restraint of the federal government’s over-aggressive weed warriors.

  

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• Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

  

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• Having the right perspective is tough when you’re alone. Surround yourself with people who will help you see things you cannot readily see.

  

  Clifton Anderson
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  • Help
  • Alone