Brad Stevens Quotes

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• Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Car

• The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Old

• I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Man
  • Play
  • Television

• Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Humanity
  • Silver

• Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Home
  • I Can
  • Los Angeles

• Pain is never permanent.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Pain
  • Never
  • Permanent

• There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Experience

• I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Good
  • Want
  • Just

• It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

  

  Hank Snow
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Power
  • Growing

• But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Question
  • Space

• Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Try
  • Reach
  • Ever

• There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • Way
  • Republican
  • Cleaning

• I believe God will make a way.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • God
  • Believe
  • Way

• My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Mom
  • Actors
  • Theater

• Marco Rubio is one of those people. How does that work? How can you call him a con artist and dangerous, and object to all the controversial things he says, and then say, but I`m still going to vote for him? Come on, man.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work

• I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Up
  • House
  • Force

• In the Far East, it's very normal for people to wear masks in flu season. I don't know if I'd ever do that, though, because I don't like having things on my face.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Face
  • Flu

• I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Choice

• More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • War
  • Drama
  • Wind

• You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not...

  

  Brad Stevens
  • Choice
  • Playing
  • Teammate