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Phil Knight Quotes

If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my life as any one person could have. He taught me about competition and ingrained it in me. He taught me not to praise ordinary performances.

Phil Knight

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: February 24, 1938

Topics

Life Competition Me Impact My Life

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

Jewel

Great Man People World Great Things

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

Jerry O'Connell

Relationship Alone Plant Week Alive

I'm typically not a heels person.

Jenny Lewis

Person Heels

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

Steve Jobs

Good Friend Humor Together Computers

I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.

Stan Wawrinka

Football More Tennis Up Surrounded

Change very often comes to Washington, not from Washington.

Tom Perez

Change Washington Very Often

I think nothing I've done has impacted my life as much as working on 'Treme,' because it was the first project that I worked on in the United States after being an actor in the Netherlands my whole life, basically.

Michiel Huisman

Life Think My Life Done Nothing

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

Dexter Fletcher

Children Responsibility Accept Adult

I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.

Douglas Coupland

Me Society Enough Teachers Worship

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

Christopher Meloni

Life Beauty Daughter Great Wife Joy

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

Clayton M. Christensen

Opportunity People Management Better

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

Art Appearance Aim Things Inward