Pat Riley Quotes
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
Quotes to Explore
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
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Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
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Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.
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Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this omniscient narrator, but through questions, ambivalence, vulnerability. A mind questioning and on the move, not just settling down and declaring - that's one of the most interesting possibilities.
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The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.
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God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
