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John Wooden

John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player (1961) and a coach (1973). He was the first person ever enshrined in both categories; only Lenny Wilkens and Bill Sharman have since been so honored. He was awarded the presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003. He led UCLA basketball program from 1948 until 1975. He was the coach for UCLA winning 10 championships in 12 years. He is also famous for his pyramid of success.

They Call Me Coach (1972)

 * Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.

 * The main ingredient of stardom, is the rest of the team.

 * Young people need models, not critics.

 * Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

 * You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)

 * Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.

 * Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Interview on Charlie Rose (2000)

 * Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction and knowing you’ve made the effort, do the best of what you’re capable.

 * You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that’s under your control and the other isn’t.
 * quoting his father

 * Make each day your masterpiece.
 * quoting his father

 * The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.

 * You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don’t try to play theirs.
 * reported by Bill Walton

 * The four laws of learning are: the first is demonstration of what you want. The second is the criticism of the demonstration. The third is the imitation of the correct model, and the fourth is repetition, over and over until it becomes habit where is you don’t think about it.

 * Don’t beat yourself. That’s the worst kind of defeat you’ll ever suffer.
 * reported by Bill Walton

 * I do not have the right, Bill, but I do have the right to say who is going to play on my team and we’re going to miss you.
 * reported by Bill Walton, about his right to wear his hair long

IBM Linux Commercial: The Prodigy (2003)

 * A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself for the group, for the good of the group — that’s teamwork.

Misattributed

 * Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
 * Wooden only repeated a common aphorism (e.g. Interview on Charlie Rose, reported by Bill Walton), which was already in circulation as early as the 1920s, when he was a youth.

Quotes about

 * "[Wooden] is so square he's divisible by four.
 * Jim Murray, as quoted in "'Wizard of Westwood': Two on One" by Ted Beitchman, in Los Angeles Times (March 25, 1973)

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Edward Everett Hale

Edward Everett Hale (3 April 1822 – 10 June 1909) was an American author and Unitarian clergyman.

Quotes

 * No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by Her, boy, as you would stand by your mother, if those devils there had got hold of her to-day.
 * "The Man Without a Country" (1863) - Full text online

 * He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
 * Epitaph of Philip Nolan in "The Man Without a Country" (1863)

 * Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, telegraphing kindly to all other people, to be sure? Can it be possible that our passion for large cities, and large parties, and large theatres, and large churches, develops no faith nor hope nor love which would not find aliment and exercise in a little "world of our own"?
 * "The Brick Moon" (1869) - Full text online

 * The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.
 * Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 150.

 * I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will
 * Statement published in A Year of Beautiful Thoughts (1902) by Jeanie Ashley Bates Greenough, p. 172, Third statement for June 11. This has often been misattributed to Helen Keller in some published works since at least 1980, perhaps because she somewhere quoted it.
 * Variant:
 * I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
 * The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts (1909) by Edwin Osgood Grover, p. 28; also in Masterpieces of Religious Verse (1948) by James Dalton Morrison, p. 416, where it is titled "Lend a Hand"

 * Together — one of the most inspiring words in the English language. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
 * Attributed to Edward Everett Hale in: United States. President (1922). Addresses of the President of the U.S. and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. p. 80

Ten Times One is Ten (1870)

 * Ten Times One is Ten and Other Stories (1899) online (PDF & EPUB) - Ten Times One is Ten (1917 edition) (PDF & EPUB)

 * Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand!
 * Variants of "the Four Mottos":
 * Look up and not down; Look out and not in. Look forward and not back; Lend a hand!
 * As used in Our New Crusade (1884)
 * Look up and not down; Look forward and not back; Look out and not in; — Lend a hand!
 * Handwritten version published in an 1917 edition

 * We went on in our quiet way. Life was purer and simpler and less annoyed to us, because constantly, now, we met with near and dear friends whom we had not known a day before, who looked up and not down, looked out and not in, looked forward and not backward, and were ready to lend a hand. Life seemed simpler to them, and it is my belief that to all of us, in proportion as we bothered less about cultivating ourselves, and were willing to spend and be spent for that without us, above us, and before us, life became infinite and this world became heaven.

 * Why were all these salutes fired, the world over? Why was every capital illuminated? Why was there a holiday given to every school ? Halfholidays had been the universal custom for years before. It was simply, you see, that a tenth part of the people in the world had shown in some way worth belief that they meant — To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, — and To lend a hand.

 * That day the whole world held festival. All schools were dismissed, — all banks and workshops and factories closed, — all "unnecessary labor suspended," as the great salutes and the great chimes came booming out, which announced the agreement of a world of self-forgetting men. That day, do I say? Every day from that day was festival, — century after century. So soon as the world once learned the infinite blessing of Active Love, and stayed it by Faith, and enjoyed it in Hope, there was no danger that the world should unlearn that lesson. That lesson — if this vision of a possibility prove true — comes to the world by no change of law; by no new revelation, nor other gospel than the world has now. It comes simply as man after man and woman after woman lead such unselfish lives, as all of us see sometimes, as all would be glad to live...

How To Do It (1871)

 * You may divide literature into two great classes of books. The smaller class of the two consists of the books written by people who had something to say. They had in life learned something, or seen something, or done something, which they really wanted and needed to tell to other people. They told it. And their writings make, perhaps, a twentieth part of the printed literature of the world. It is the part which contains all that is worth reading. The other nineteen-twentieths make up the other class.
 * Ch. IV : How To Write

 * Our first rule is, then, Know What You Want To Say. The second rule is, Say It. That is, do not begin by saying something else, which you think will lead up to what you want to say. I remember, when they tried to teach me to sing, they told me to "think of eight and sing seven." That may be a very good rule for singing, but it is not a good rule for talking, or writing, or any of the other things that I have to do. I advise you to say the thing you want to say. When I began to preach, another of my Nestors said to me, "Edward, I give you one piece of advice. When you have written your sermon, leave off the introduction and leave off the conclusion. The introduction seems to me always written to show that the minister can preach two sermons on one text. Leave that off, then, and it will do for another Sunday. The conclusion is written to apply to the congregation the doctrine of the sermon. But, if your hearers are such fools that they cannot apply the doctrine to themselves, nothing you can say will help them." In this advice was much wisdom. It consists, you see, in advising to begin, at the beginning, and to stop when you have done. Thirdly, and always, Use Your Own Language. I mean the language you are accustomed to use in daily life.

Disputed

 * "Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale?" someone asked the chaplain. "No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country."
 * Reported in Van Wyck Brooks, New England: Indian Summer, 1865–1915 (1940), p. 418, footnote. Another source states: "The celebrated anecdote... is not so unambiguous as it appears... There is no reason to doubt the authenticity of Hale's reply, but it should be understood within a framework of respect for the senators as well as concern for the country. He knew every one of them personally and regarded them, as he said in his preface to Prayers in The Senate (1904), as 'intelligent men, in very close daily intimacy with each other, in the discharge of a common duty of the greatest importance.'" John R. Adams, Edward Everett Hale (1977), pp. 100–101.

Misattributed

 * If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
 * In Quote, Unquote (1977) by Lloyd Cory, p. 6, this statement was simply attributed to the Meggido Message which is the name of a publication by the Meggido Church, but immediately following a quote by Hale. This may have led to it being attributed to Hale in The Quotable Manager : Inspiration for Business and Life (2006) by Joel J. Weiss, p. 128; a similar expression "If you have achieved all you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough" occurs in two works by John Mason: Let Go of Whatever Makes You Stop (1994), p. 79, and Know Your Limits — Then Ignore Them (2000), p. 123

Quotes about Hale

 * Dr. Edward Everett Hale is one of my very oldest friends. I have known him since I was eight, and my love for him has increased with my years. His wise, tender sympathy has been the support of Miss Sullivan and me in times of trial and sorrow, and his strong hand has helped us over many rough places; and what he has done for us he has done for thousands of those who have difficult tasks to accomplish. He has filled the old skins of dogma with the new wine of love, and shown men what it is to believe, live and be free. What he has taught we have seen beautifully expressed in his own life — love of country, kindness to the least of his brethren, and a sincere desire to live upward and onward. He has been a prophet and an inspirer of men, and a mighty doer of the Word, the friend of all his race — God bless him!
 * Helen Keller, in The Story of My Life (1904), p. 136

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was a poet and novelist born in Portsmouth, USA.

Quotes

 * In her eyes a thought Grew sweet and sweeter, deepening like the dawn— A mystical forewarning!
 * "Pythagoras", Pampinea and Other Poems (New York: Budd & Carleton, 1861), p. 19

 * What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.
 * "Miss Mehetabel's Son", Marjorie Daw and Other People (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873), p. 168

 * The ability to secure your own way and yet impress others with the idea that they are having their own way is rare among men; in women it is as common as eyebrows.
 * The Queen of Sheba (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877), ch. I. "Mary", p. 16

 * We weep when we are born, not when we die!
 * "The Metempsychosis", The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882), p. 139

 * My dear Mr. Morse: It was very pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty. One can say to one's self every morning: "There's that letter of Morse's. I haven't read it yet. I think I'll take another shy at it to-day, and maybe I shall be able in the course of a few years to make out what he means by those t's that look like w's and those i's that haven't any eyebrows." Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever—unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.
 * Letter to Edward S. Morse, as reported in Science, Vol. XV. No. 363 (January 17, 1890), "Notes and News", p. 41
 * The letter is introduced thus: "The Boston correspondent of The Book Buyer quotes an amusing letter sent by Mr. Aldrich to Professor E. S. Morse, ex-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Morse, it should be said, has a handwriting quite indescribable in illegibility."

 * That was indeed to live— At one bold swoop to wrest From darkling death the best That Death to Life can give!
 * "An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial on Boston Common. May Thirty-First, 1897", The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Vol. II (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897), p. 207

The Story of a Bad Boy (1870)

 * Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870)

 * My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.
 * Ch. II. "In Which I Entertain Peculiar Views", p. 11

 * We visit […] a neighboring graveyard. I am by this time in a condition of mind to become a willing inmate of the place.
 * Ch. VI. "Lights and Shadows", p. 70

 * It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.
 * Ch. VI. "Lights and Shadows", p. 71

 * There's a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.
 * Ch. XVII. "How We Astonished the Rivermouthians", p. 202

Flower and Thorn (1882)

 * Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882

 * Somewhere—in desolate wind-swept space— In Twilight-land—in No-man’s land— Two hurrying Shapes met face to face,  And bade each other stand.  “And who are you?” cried one, a-gape,  Shuddering in the gloaming light. “I know not,” said the second Shape,  “I only died last night!”
 * "Identity", p. 71

 * Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise And shows you laughing lips and rougish eyes. But when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, 'Tis ten to one you find the girl in tears.
 * "Quatrains 9. Masks", p. 86

 * Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all: All's one to her—above her fan She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.
 * "Quatrains 10. Coquette", p. 86

 * They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
 * "Enamoured Architect of Airy Rhyme", p. 143

An Old Town by the Sea (1893)

 * Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893

 * If you chance to live in a town where the authorities cannot rest until they have destroyed every precious tree within their blighting reach, you will be especially charmed by the beauty of the streets of Portsmouth. In some parts of the town, when the chestnuts are in blossom, you would fancy yourself in a garden in fairyland.
 * Ch. III. "A Stroll about Town", pp. 22–23

 * When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789 he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.
 * Ch. IV. "A Stroll about Town (continued)", p. 34

 * Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spot.
 * Ch. IV. "A Stroll about Town (continued)", p. 44

 * Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.
 * Ch. V. "Old Strawberry Bank", p. 68

 * Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
 * Ch. VI. "Some Old Portsmouth Profiles", p. 83

Unguarded Gates and Other Poems (1895)

 * Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895

 * Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, Named of the four winds, North, South, East and West; Portals that lead to an enchanted land Of cities, forests, fields of living gold Vast prairies, lordly summits touched with snow, Majestic rivers sweeping proudly past The Arab's date-palm and the Norseman's pine— A realm wherein are fruits of every zone, Airs of all climes, for lo! throughout the year The red rose blossoms somewhere—a rich land A later Eden planted in the wilds, With not an inch of earth within its bound But if a slave's foot press it sets him free. Here, it is written, Toil shall have its wage And Honor honor, and the humblest man Stand level with the highest in the law. Of such a land have men in dungeons dreamed And with the vision brightening in their eyes Gone smiling to the fagot and the sword. Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, And through them press a wild, a motley throng— Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes, Featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho, Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav, Flying the Old World’s poverty and scorn; These bringing with them unknown gods and rites, Those tiger passions, here to stretch their claws. In street and alley what strange tongues are these, Accents of menace alien to our air, Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew! O, Liberty, white goddess, is it well To leave the gate unguarded? On thy breast Fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of fate, Lift the downtrodden, but with the hand of steel Stay those who to thy sacred portals come To waste the gifts of freedom. Have a care Lest from thy brow the clustered stars be torn And trampled in the dust. For so of old The thronging Goth and Vandal trampled Rome, And where the temples of the Caesars stood The lean wolf unmolested made her lair.
 * "Unguarded Gates" (written April 1892); first appeared in Atlantic Monthly 70 (July 1892), then included in this collection, pp. 15–17.
 * For a nuanced interpretation of this controversial poem, see Terry Heller, "An Interpretation of T. B. Aldrich's 'Unguarded Gates'" at The Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project.

 * What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, or wingëd air.
 * "A Shadow of the Night", p. 26

 * O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!
 * "Interludes: Two Moods", p. 55

 * Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay. And serve the potter as he turns his wheel, I thank thee for the precious gift of tears!
 * "Interludes: Two Moods", p. 56

 * So precious life is! Even to the old The hours are as a miser’s coins!
 * "Interludes: Broken Music", p. 70

 * Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
 * "Seven Sonnets: Andromeda", p. 98

 * When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.
 * "Footnotes: Hospitality", p. 120

 * If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown, Then tarry not, I bid thee haste; There's many another Inn in town.
 * "Footnotes: Quits", p. 121

Ponkapog Papers (1903)

 * Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903

 * The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 8

 * Humor is a delicate shrub, with the passing hectic flush of its time. The current-topic variety is especially subject to early frosts, as is also the dialectic species.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 17

 * After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 18

 * I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 18

 * Books that have become classics—books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal—always remind me of venerable colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", pp. 20–21

 * The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 23

 * Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 23

 * The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 25.

 * Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 27

 * Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 28

 * The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 29

 * All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hour-glass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 29

 * Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs—putting in his oar, so to speak—with some pat word or sentence.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 29

 * There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 38

 * He has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 38

 * A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 40

 * True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 42

 * Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 43

 * What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 43

 * To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age.
 * "Leaves from a Note Book", p. 46

 * Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.[…] The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
 * "Asides: Decoration Day", p. 96

 * The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.
 * "Asides: On Early Rising", p. 102

 * It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go a-fishing. He brings virginal emotions and unsatiated eyes to the sparkling freshness of earth and stream and sky.
 * "Asides: On Early Rising", p. 105

 * The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a simulated sorrow.
 * "Asides: On a Certain Affectation", p. 119

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Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist, screenwriter and translator.

Quotes

 * Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empêchera d'être heureux.
 * There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.
 * La Sauvage ["The Restless Heart"] (1938), Act 3.

 * Mourir, ce n'est rien. Commence donc par vivre. C'est moins drôle et c'est plus long.
 * To die is nothing. Begin by living. It’s less funny and lasts longer.
 * Roméo et Jeannette (1946), Act 3.

 * On ne peut pleurer pour le monde entier : C'est au-delà des forces humaines. Il faut choisir !
 * But one cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.
 * Cecile or The School for Fathers (1954)

 * When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past — and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.
 * Time Remembered (1958)

 * Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?”
 * Jean Anouilh as cited in: Stuart Allan (2010) News Culture. p. 1

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