"Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse."

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Source : Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

Pat Riley

#Get Better Quotes #Strive Quotes

“Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own selfÂ respect and to the moral purity of men. In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.”
“When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'”
“The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back to earth for more than two and a half years. The difficulties of a trip to mars are formidable. . . . What curious information will these first explorers carry back from Mars? Nobody knows-and its extremely doubtful that anyone now living will ever know. All that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made . . . someday.”
“People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.”
“I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.”
“Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.”
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To me, an untrained ear, a young person at the time, I would hear off the different feels, all these different sounds, and then years later realize that everyone had used the same equipment, just to their own ends.”

Source : "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

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