My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one’s wishes.
In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other’s culture without compromising its own.
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one’s coffee and fill one’s pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Success doesn’t motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey.
Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
Some days I’m up, some days I’m down. But I think one thing that does get you moving is hope.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!
If a man does his best, what else is there?
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She’s an actress, she just never gets called to the set.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God’s ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Pretending that voter fraud does not exist puts the integrity of our voting process at risk.
Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Where in the Bible does it say I have to drive a Honda?
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.
How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
It is said that love makes the world go ’round – the announcement lacks verification. It’s wind from the dinner horn that does it.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay. But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
