John Wooden Quotes

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: coach
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 14, 1910 - June 4, 2010

Topics

CharacterReputationThinkYouMore

The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.

Melvyn Bragg

BestBetterCountrySometimesPlanet

Computers double their performance every month.

Stephen Hawking

PerformanceComputersMonthDouble

There was no better end than Lance Alworth and no better lineman than Ron Mix. Those are Hall of Fame guys. There was no better guard than Walt Sweeney and no better pair of running backs than Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe.

Sid Gillman

EndBetterFameGuardPairMix

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

Tracey Emin

LifeMeMy LifeWantOverAnything

That is always really fun when you get to work with a director you understand and uses references you can identify with.

Travis Beacham

WorkFunYouUnderstandDirector

The president has largely taken a hands-off approach in Syria and granted it as a legitimate sphere of interest to countries like Iran and like Russia. This is very bad policy, and it's going to lead to very dangerous consequences for our partners in the region, which is why so many of them are so opposed to U.S. policies.

Tom Cotton

ConsequencesBadDangerousWhyLead

In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.

Rufus Wainwright

FatherBusinessMusicTimeYourself

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

Chris Barber

GoodLiveTimeEnjoyJazzMore

Everybody always thinks I'm a lesbian because I'm a very tough broad. I have a lot of lesbian fans.

Constance Zimmer

ToughAlwaysFansBecauseLesbian

I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.

Ariel Garten

CuriousThinkToolsMindsOwnMay

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring.

William J. Clinton

ChangePeopleBelieveThinkBetter

Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

Marsha Blackburn

TimeFocusGovernmentProblemBegin

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