John Wooden Quotes

Never mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AchievementMistakeNeverActivity

It's really important for us as a band, that when someone is giving us grief on stage, to show our fans how important it is that they stand up for themselves and that they feel confident in themselves.

Andy Biersack

GriefStand UpStandConfidentFeel

I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.

Matt Lauer

LifeMy LifeWantKnownMornings

I have called the co-host job at the 'Today Show' my dream job, and I would be lying if I said it was easy to leave that job.

Ann Curry

TodayJobEasyDreamSaidLying

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

Jeanne Calment

LifeParentsMeThreadExcuseTight

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

Stephen Covey

WorkBossPeopleGrowPersonal

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

MarriageMotherParentsDivorceYou

I cook naked, and I walk around naked. I'm very comfortable with my body.

Tracee Ellis Ross

WalkBodyComfortableNakedCook

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Tommy Lee Jones

LifeFuturePastCreativeThinking

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

Tom Wilson

LifeRoadPotholes

I am the driver. I am the owner, kind of the sponsor, except for our sponsorship with Dodge.

Robby Gordon

I AmKindDriverSponsorshipDodge

It's scary to me to watch the world around us get less and less physical while in the imaginary world of pop culture, aggressive impulses and fear reactions are floridly, furiously stoked and indulged.

Mary Gaitskill

FearCultureMeWorldScaryWatch

Even for defeating extremists, you need more than a military strategy.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

StrategyYouMoreMilitaryNeed

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