Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Summitt

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.

Pat Summitt

Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.

Pat Summitt

I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.

Pat Summitt

To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.

P. L. Travers

I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote it. Grown-ups have fostered this quotient of identity, particularly teachers. Write a letter to your favorite author and so forth. When I was a child I never realized that there were authors behind books. Books were there as living things, with identities of their own.

P. G. Wodehouse

Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.

Ovid

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

Ovid

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

Paul O'Grady

My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.

Paul O'Grady

I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

Paul Pierce

I don't get caught in the match-ups, trying to outduel somebody. It's a team game.

Paul Pierce

I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.

Paul Pierce

Both teams want to win and they want to do everything possible. You don't think about the fatigue factor. You're just trying to grind it out to get the win.

Paul Pierce

I try to play within the flow of the team's offense.

Paul Pierce

I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.

Paul Pierce

When you give a team life, give a team confidence, anything can happen in a Game 7.

Paul Newman

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

Paul Farmer

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

Paul Farmer

We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

Paul Brown

I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.

Paul Brown

The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.

Paul Bloom

For the most part, people use "empathy" to mean everything good. For instance, many medical schools have courses in empathy. But if you look at what they mean, they just want medical students to be nicer to their patients, to listen to them, to respect them, to understand them. What's not to like? If they were really teaching empathy, then I'd say there is a world of problems there.

Matt Groening

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

Marya Mannes

the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.

Marya Hornbacher

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

Marya Hornbacher

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?

Mary J. Blige

I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

Martha Grimes

And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.

Marsilio Ficino

A sturdy lad . . . who teams it, farms it . . . and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

Martha Beck

If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes you cannot now imagine.

Marshall McLuhan

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

Mark Grace

A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'.

Mark Harmon

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.