Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

John Wooden

Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.

John Wooden

I like to give opinions, not suggestions

John Wooden

When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.

John Wooden

While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor-and to be mentored!-constantly.Everything in the world has been passed down. Every piece of knowledge is something that has been shared by someone else. If you understand it as I do, mentoring becomes your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. It is why you get up every day-to teach and be taught.

John Wooden

The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you treat everyone the same. You must give each individual the treatment that you feel he earns and deserves, recognizing at all times that you're imperfect and you're going to be incorrect oftentimes in your judgment.

John Ruskin

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

John Ruskin

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

Camilo Villegas

You've got to put it in play out here. There is no need to start throwing it off line and giving shots away.

The kids are not happy about all these changes. They're giving us a terrible time.

Colin Angle

This is all about giving people time back and improving their quality of life.

This is a historic occasion and I'm giving my contribution.

Eric Kripke

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

Eric Idle

I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I'm allergic to mould.

Eric Idle

I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].

Eric Idle

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

Eric Hoffer

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness.

Eric Hoffer

When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Eric Hoffer

Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

Mortimer Adler

Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die.

Mortimer Adler

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

Mortimer Adler

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

Missy Elliot

I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want

Paulo Freire

Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

Philip Sidney

As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.

Philip Sidney

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

Philip Johnson

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

Peter Diamandis

You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.

Peter Diamandis

Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.

Peter Diamandis

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

Peter Diamandis

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.

Peter Drucker

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

Peter Drucker

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.