"You don't adjust. You just dominate."

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Source : "The Raiders' man in black is back / Mysterious leader Davis garners respect even from foes" by Ron Kroichick, www.sfgate.com. January 22, 2003.

Al Davis

“You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.”
“I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.”
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

Source : Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225
“Don't look over your shoulder and don't use or abuse others to get ahead. Keep your eyes focused on your goals and keep working for what you believe in and what you want to accomplish.”

Source : Doctorate Award Speech at Kean University, New Jersey, 2004.
“Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.”
“A powerful force drives the world toward a converging commonality, and that force is technology. â€¦ Almost everyone everywhere wants all the things they have heard about, seen, or experienced via the new technologies.”
“I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.”
“That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.”

Source : Dorothy Koomson (2006). “My Best Friend's Girl”, Bantam Discovery

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