John Wooden Quotes

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

John Wooden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FaithPrayerPeaceMindTrueThings

I don't see myself as a Larry King or somebody. When you do interviews, sometimes it turns to interrogations. I'm more of a conversationalist, not throwing hardball questions.

Joe Morgan

MyselfKingQuestionsYouSometimes

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

Jeremy Irvine

DeterminationMattersObsessionThen

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

John Dryden

MadKnowPleasureBeingNoneWhich

For me to pretend I'm the keeper of the small town mentality or that's all I'm interested in is wrong.

John Mellencamp

MeSmallSmall TownWrongPretend

I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.

Amy Lee

CreativeLookingDesignUniqueFind

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Toni Morrison

MoneyBlackThinkMoralityUpset

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

Roy H. Williams

RealImagesRepresent

I was raised Christian; I was raised in the South where everybody's raised Christian, but at this point, I'm 41 years old, and I've been an atheist, at this point, a little more than half my life.

Jason Aaron

LifeMy LifeChristianAtheistMore

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

Brian Eno

MusicEarthNowEditingBecomeOut

I don't know, I'm literally the most awkward, socially strange person.

Phoebe Tonkin

PersonKnowStrangeAwkwardMost

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

Philip Roth

BeautyPowerLiteratureMoralBelief

I feel liberated being around women who are liberated.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

WomenFeelBeingWhoI FeelAround

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