"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

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Source : "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

Michael Jordan

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“Wrinkles are ditches that the gods have dug for our tears.”
“I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.”
“When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.”
“When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.”
“Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.”
“Distance is the Enemy of Awareness.”

Source : Alisa Smith, J.B. MacKinnon (2009). “The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating”, p.69, Vintage Canada
“The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Donâ€™t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all.”
“Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes a commonplace old life and makes it all somehow more interesting. And hopefully I can do that in a way that touches a lot of people in their lives, too.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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