Tracy McGrady Quotes

When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.

Tracy McGrady

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TalentPracticeMeThinkYouKind

I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.

Megan Smith

LearningScienceMoneySchoolActive

At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?

Anna Kournikova

FearSportsSmartThinkYouPlay

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

Michael Gove

ExpectationsStartingLowAcademics

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

Steve Buyer

FutureTechnologyTodayThoughtData

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

Alveda King

LeaderPoliticsAmericaMoreWants

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Socrates

CourageManEnemyRunAgainstPost

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.

Lois Lowry

ChoicesReadingYoungNiceSafe

With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have the wrong piece of music over a scene, people aren't going to get the scene. If you have the wrong camera angle, people aren't going to pay attention. That's as much a part of the process as getting people to talk to you.

Josh Fox

MusicPeopleCameraAttentionYou

I think being in the public eye can only help me launch into the world of fashion.

Johnny Weir

MeWorldFashionEyeThinkHelp

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

Diego Della Valle

LifeChooseQuietPossible

I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam.

Art Malik

FaithReligionBlindIslamWhich

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

Ari Graynor

LoveMeInterestingMoreBeing

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