"I won't coach this team next year if he is still here. He won't listen to anyone. I've had it with this kid."

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Source : Phil Jackson (2005). “The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul”, Penguin Group USA

Phil Jackson

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“Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.”
“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”
“Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.”
“The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's the wisdom-or rather the movement toward it-that counts.”
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
“If it is necessary we will find a quick answer and it will not be the way the United States expects it. It will be an answer that devalues the 'Star Wars' program.”

Source : UPI (Moscow) press release on Soviet reaction to the Strategic Defense Initiative, "Daily Record" Newspaper, August 1986.
“If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.”
“The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.”

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