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Michael Jordan Quotes

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: February 17, 1963

Topics

Life Travel People College Ideas

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

Brain Direction Push Mentoring Right

One of the biggest obstacles to making lots of money is not a lack of good ideas or opportunities or time, or that we're too slovenly or stupid: it's that we refuse to give ourselves permission to become rich.

Good Time Money Ideas Stupid Rich

When I first went to Milan, my agent said you have to give off a strong, masculine energy. They don't like campiness. They like boys to appear straight and to appear masculine. I quickly learned the game of it and how to navigate around it.

Game Energy Strong You Said First

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Life Goals Never Give Up Mother Me

I like my music to transport people somewhere.

Music People Transport Somewhere

When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

Tea Green Writing Warm Early Down

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

Great Together Politics Present Will

My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees.

Day School Cool High School High

My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. Marry to marry, had kids because that's what was done. Liked crossword puzzles, liked lilac trees, liked baking in the sun, and liked Bing Crosby.

Mother Sun Trees Name Baking Born

I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization.

Stress Medicine Down Civilization

I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.

Life I Am My Life Place Stay Chosen

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

Deborah Moggach

Rain Child Window Looking Lonely

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