"I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence."

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Source : "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

Julius Erving

#Basketball Quotes #Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what's best for them, including me.”
“Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.”
“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”

Source : Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.37, Hachette UK
“To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.”
“While reading writers of great formulatory power â€” Henry James, Santayana, Proust â€” I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. Reading Henry James, for example, I have muttered to myself, "Câ€™mon, Henry, turn down the brilliance a notch, so I can get some reading done." I may be one of a very small number of people who have developed writerâ€™s cramp while reading.”
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”
“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
“When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. Then we [had to worry about] AIDS, so they started lecturing my kids in elementary school about safe sex. Sex turned from something joyful into something kind of dangerous, and it was hard to avoid that sense that it was a different world.”

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