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“I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And thats what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.”
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“What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.”
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“We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.”
Source : Petra Karin Kelly, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace
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“I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.”
Source : "Aaron Taylor-Johnson: a star from nowhere". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.
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“Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.”
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“The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.”
Source : "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.
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“That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.”
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“When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult,”
Source : James Meredith (2012). “A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America”, p.25, Simon and Schuster