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John Wooden Quotes

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Criticism Weakness You Praise Up

If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

Live Responsibility Reputation You

I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.

Funny Father Mother Today People Me

I've always had mostly gay male friends.

Melissa McCarthy

Friends Gay Always Had Male Mostly

I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

Smoking You I Can Wrong Stop Tell

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

Myself World Small Trying Over Big

The best way for me to teach myself an instrument is to just jam on it, and sound awful sometimes, and sound great other times.

Great Myself Best Me Sometimes Way

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

First Scientist Foremost

Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.

Christine Vachon

Leader People Control Lost Follow

I want the dude in the top row to feel like he's down there on the front row in a club.

Chris Stapleton

Feel Down Want Top Club Dude

If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.

Good Fear Father Child Worry You

I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was disappointing her if I got a bad grade. That had more power over me than teachers who told me I talked too much. That level of respect I had for her made me not want to fail for her.

Power Teacher Respect School Me Bad

I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.

Anne-Marie Duff

Life God Age Time Teen Mind

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