"We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths."

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Source : Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

Pat Riley

#Adversity Quotes #Needs Quotes #Depth Quotes

“The windy satisfaction of the tongue.”
“One is never just a teacher: One is always - even if not consciously - an advocate of a point of view, a critic of certain positions, an exemplar of someone trying to communicate, a purveyor of images, a practitioner of behavioral standards, a person dealing with, and indeed responsible for, others in common tasks. In teaching, at least, the role of moral agent is inescapable.”
“I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.”
“For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.”
“I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.”
“I found music to be the therapy of choice.”
“Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.”
“If you can make the hits, then you won't be an Internet rapper anymore. It's good for hip-hop.”

Source : "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interveiw with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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