"Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels."

-- Pat Summitt

#Team Quotes #Player Quotes #Jigsaw Puzzles Quotes

“In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors”
“Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.”
“Our economic strength at home is key to our diplomatic and military strength abroad. We should be investing far more in education as well as our technological and economic development so that we have the resources to support our foreign policy.”
“The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.”
“Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!”
“I think once those friendships, if you use that as an analogy, the friendships between the audience and the character is established, then you can start to take liberties. I believe that as this unfolds people will find the time invested worthwhile.”
“Play hard, play smart, play together, have fun.”

Source : "Coaches Spotlight: Marlon Wells". Interview with Gary Trousdale, www.scout.com. November 7, 2006.
“Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that has never before been seen. It's not just the marriage ceremony linking two things; it's the child born from the union.”

Source : Rebecca Mcclanahan (2000). “Word Painting”, p.90, Writer's Digest Books

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