"I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help."

-- Tommy Lasorda

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“Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when youâ€™re not looking, itâ€™s there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, itâ€™s the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, itâ€™s not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you donâ€™t get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice.”
“As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.”
“As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.”

Source : Scott Turow (2006). “Limitations”, p.56, Macmillan
“There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.”

Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
“I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.”
“The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would like it. I'm thrilled to observe other people, but I don't want to be in their shoes. If I got there, I might find it not quite what I expected, and it would break my illusion, and I don't want that!”
“Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.”
“Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.”

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