"I only dunked maybe twice a game on average."

-- Dominique Wilkins

#Average Quotes #Games Quotes

“How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?”

Source : Michelle Tea (2007). “The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America”, Semiotext
“What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the ***** crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'”
“Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.”
“Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.”
“When the Vent begins, you might confuse [it] for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job is to listen for as long as it takes. Don't problem solve. Don't redirect. Don't comfort. Yet. Your employee is doing mental house cleaning and interrupting this cleaning is missing the point. They don't want a solution, they want to be heard.”
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
“I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.”
“We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.”

Source : Taiichi Ohno (2012). “Taiichi Ohnos Workplace Management : Special 100th Birthday Edition: Special 100th Birthday Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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