"The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening."

-- Evan Esar

#Listening Quotes #Sides Quotes #Argument Quotes

“To be is not a choice, but the way you feel about it certainly is.”
“Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.”
“I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.”
“Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.”
“There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India.”
“Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.”
“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
“There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does”

Source : Dean Smith, John Kilgo, Sally Jenkins (2000). “A Coach's Life: My 40 Years in College Basketball”, p.206, Random House

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