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Quotable quotes for whatever purpose...

Talent wins games. Teamwork and intelligence win championships.

— Michael Jordan, basketball player


What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake, poet


It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

— John Wooden, basketball coach and educator


If we did all the things that we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison, scientist, inventor


The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein, physicist


Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Sam Ewing, humorist, filmmaker


Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

Federico Fellini, film director and screenwriter


You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President, 1953-1961


We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves. Otherwise, we harden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, scientist


Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

Anonymous


The first rule of winning: don't beat yourself.

Football adage


We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1940-1945


If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Dean Smith, basketball coach


The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Thomas J. Watson, Jr., former chairman and CEO, IBM Corporation


Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent—all must be tasted.

Chinese proverb


The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It's better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Edward de Bono, author



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