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“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I added that Red Holzman used to say that “the real mark of a star was how much better he made his teammates.”
― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings

“Every year Tex, who loved inspirational sayings, would recite to the team his favorite proverb about the importance of learning the details: For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the message was lost. For want of a message the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.”
― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings

“There’s no I in the word ‘team,’” Tex would say. “But there is in the word ‘win,’” Michael would counter with a grin.”
― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings

“The master nodded. “To hear the unheard,” he said, “is a necessary discipline to be a good ruler. For only when a ruler has learned to listen closely to the people’s hearts, hearing their feelings uncommunicated, pains unexpressed, and complaints not spoken of, can he hope to inspire confidence in the people, understand when something is wrong, and meet the true needs of his citizens.”
― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

“The way you do anything is the way you do everything. TOM WAITS”
― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

“Martin Luther King Jr. spoke eloquently about this phenomenon. “In a real sense, all of life is interrelated,” he said. “All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings

“It’s not just what you know, but how you practice what you know that determines how well the learning serves you later.”
― Peter C. Brown, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

“Rereading has three strikes against it. It is time consuming. It doesn’t result in durable memory. And it often involves a kind of unwitting self-deception, as growing familiarity with the text comes to feel like mastery of the content. The hours immersed in rereading can seem like due diligence, but the amount of study time is no measure of mastery.”
― Peter C. Brown, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

“Many teachers believe that if they can make learning easier and faster, the learning will be better. Much research turns this belief on its head: when learning is harder, it’s stronger and lasts longer. It’s widely believed by teachers, trainers, and coaches that the most effective way to master a new skill is to give it dogged, single-minded focus, practicing over and over until you’ve got it down. Our faith in this runs deep, because most of us see fast gains during the learning phase of massed practice. What’s apparent from the research is that gains achieved during massed practice are transitory and melt away quickly.”
― Peter C. Brown, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

“As with everything else in life, the instructions remain the same, despite changing circumstances: Chop wood, carry water.”
― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings

“Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It’s about mastering the art of letting go.”
― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. GEORGE MOORE”
― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings

“What separates great players from all-time great players is their ability to self-assess, diagnose weaknesses, and turn those flaws into strengths.”
― Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

“Use it or lose it is the rule with ripe fruit, political goodwill, media attention, coupons, economic opportunity, space to pass on the highway, all sorts of things. But most importantly, it’s true of the knowledge you soak up over your lifetime. If you don’t regularly flex your mind like a muscle and put your knowledge to work, it will eventually lose its power.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven tools for life

“Curiosity. Hunger for information. Being open-minded. Putting your knowledge to good use. This, it turns out, is a formula for anyone to create real, meaningful change in the world, whether it’s personal, professional, or political.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven tools for life

“Cel mai mare calator este cel care a stiut sa faca macar o data o calatorie in sine insusi.”
― Mélissa Da Costa, Tout le bleu du ciel

“Adevarata calatorie nu consta in a cauta peisaje noi, ci in a privi cu alti ochi.”
― Mélissa Da Costa, Tout le bleu du ciel

“Adevarata cunoastere nu se masoara in diplome. Si de altfel, nici in numarul de carti pe care le-ai devorat. Arata-i stelele, plantele care rasar si care mor, frumusetea unui apus de soare. fa-l sa simta parfumul liliacului si sa asculte valurile marii.”
― Mélissa Da Costa, Tout le bleu du ciel

“Momentul prezent are un avantaj asupra tuturor celorlalte: ne apartine.”
― Mélissa Da Costa, Tout le bleu du ciel

“Daca plangi pentru ca soarele a disparut din viata ta, lacrimile te vor impiedica sa vezi stelele.”
― Mélissa Da Costa, Tout le bleu du ciel

“Extraordinarul se afla pe drumul oamenilor obisnuiti - Paulo Coelho”
― Mélissa Da Costa, Tout le bleu du ciel