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Love from Heaven. By Lorna Byrne. Quotes VI

-The key to forgiveness is looking at yourself and others with compassion and understanding.
-God created us, fell in love with us, and it was because of this that he decided he would give all human beings a soul.
-God gave each and every one of us a part of himself, that speck of light of God that is our soul.
-God appoints a guardian angel for each soul. The guardian angel finds the soul that has been appointed to guide it. During this time, the soul and the guardian angel talk to each other, sharing with great love  and joy getting to know each other.
-Standing in front of God the real connection between the guardian angel and soul is made.
-Because of God's overwhelming love for us, his children, he has appointed a guardian angel as gatekeeper of our souls and has charged it with bringing us back safely home to him in heaven. God is waiting on each and every one of us to come home.
-Your guardian angel can never leave you. it doesn't want to leave you anyway; it is constantly in the presence of your soul, which is a speck of the light of God, so that your guardian angel is continuously in God's presence.
-The guardian angel holds on to the soul with its hands and brings it from heaven to earth, just as it will do at the end of a life, bringing the soul back to heaven.
-God is God! There is only one God and we all share him.
-Pure love remains there within you always for the rest of your life.
-So many people are unable to see the beauty in themselves because they compare themselves to others and that this is a major block to loving yourself.

Love from Heaven. By Lorna Byrne. Quotes V

-He needed to remember the times when he had felt the energy of love of life and to bring that positivity into his life now.
-Enjoying life is a decision we all need to make, no matter how rough things may seem.
-If we get into the habit of enjoying life, and seeing the good things there, it is easier to lift ourselves out of a blue period.
-God has told me that we are meant to be happy, that we are meant to love every step, every breath we take.
-Why doesn't God make it easier for us to love life? I don't know why some people seem to have very tough lives, why they suffer ill health, or lose loves ones. I have no answer for this.
-This earth is a gift from God.
-Sustaining a marriage is hard work. Couples have to work all the time to remind themselves why they fell in love in the first place, and to look back and reconnect with this love.
-If we are prepared to really try to save a relationship , the angels of romantic love and other angels will give us tremendous support.
-We all have the free choice to stop this bitterness. We do it by making a conscious decision to stop when we feel provoked, to consciously not to react.
-We all have a unique role to play in this world, a role that no one else can play. And yet we waste so much of our lives comparing ourselves to others. This might seem harmless, but it's one the seeds of hate.
-We all need to be aware when hurtful or hateful things are being said about people. We all have a responsibility to stop cycles of hatred being built up.
-Anger is one of the ways that we feed hate.
-Righteous anger gives you the courage to stand up for yourself and, if necessary, to take the steps to protect yourself, those you love, and the things you believe are right.
-These two young men were aware that they had the freedom to decide that they didn't want to continue this cycle, that they knew they had the potential to decide to break the cycle of hate and revenge within their own families, so that it wouldn't be passed on to their children in the way it had been passed on to them.
-When we choose not to give in to hate, not to feed it with negative thoughts, we allow our lives to be much more fulfilled.

Love from Heaven. By Lorna Byrne. Quotes IV

-When someone dies, all of these differences are washed away; all the human imperfections that lead to rows and anger disappear and the soul of the parent simply feels pure love for children who are left behind.
-Don't be afraid to talk to them.
-Kindness is love.
-We have been given guardian angels because we have souls; our guardian angels are the gatekeepers of our souls.
-Let me suggest three things the angels have told me that each and everyone of us can do, and need to do, as individuals:
. Spend more quality time with children.
. Be an example to children.
. Stand up for children.
-We adults have become more preoccupied and focused on our own fulfillment.
-The more conscious you become of loving life, the more you build up this energy, which helps you physically and mentally.
-When you approach work or any task with love of life, the task becomes so much easier, you gain more confidence, and start to see the positives in the work you are doing.

Love from Heaven. By Lorna Bryne. Quotes III

-Showing our true self is a risk, but it is a risk worth taking.
-Friendship helps to see fragments of the world through other people's eyes, and this opens us up to the fact that our perspective may not be the only one, and may in fact be wrong.
-The next time you are with your friends, observe who is allowing their true selves to show, warts and all, and who is keeping the barriers up, presenting themselves and their lives as perfect. It may be you.
-What binds people together in powerful and close friendship is trust, the confidence that you can trust that good friend with everything in your life.
-When we think lovingly of someone and wish them well, it's a form of prayer, and is received by God as such.
-Friendship is love, and love is what makes our lives worth living.
-Each and everyone of us has a soul, and all of our souls are one; they are all a part of God.
-We each have a soulmate, a soul we knew in Heaven and have a special connection with, but in most cases this person is not our romantic partner, and you will not necessarily even meet.
-You chose your parents before you were conceived. You chose them knowing their strengths and their weaknesses.
-You need to say the words. If your parents has already gone home to Heaven, you can still tell them now and they will hear you.
-Our parents, though, while they may be in Heaven are with us when we need them.
-Your mum is in and around you, she is there when you need her. Your mum is with you, every time you think or talk about her.

Love from Heaven. By Lorna Byrne. Quotes II

-The first and most important thing adults can do is to lead by example.
-If we choose to love more, we will have greater happiness and joy in our own lives and be better able to play our unique role in creating a much more loving and peaceful world.
-When I was excluded, the angels with me would tell me that my family knew no better, and not to take it personally.
-We are asked that we allow our love to come forward  and touch the love that is locked away in another's heart.
-The sadness and pain surrounding the death of a parent, brother or sister can bring with it an unexpected gift, and help families to become closer.
-The angels always tell me  that when parents die, they want their children to become more loving and united. Parents continue from Heaven to work to bring siblings together.
-Think of Paul and tell him you love him; he will hear you.

Love from Heaven. By Lorna Byrne. Quotes

-If we are unable to love ourselves, we are unable to love another.
-Love is the most powerful force in the world; it comes from our soul, it comes from Heaven.
-I see angels all the time. I see them physically as clearly as I see my daughter sitting across the dinner table from me.
-We are all born pure love.
-When we don't let ourselves feel emotions such as compassion and love for our fellow human beings, even strangers, we become less human and this allows emotions such as hate and anger to flourish.
-Each and every one of us human beings has a soul.
-In a newborn baby who has just come from Heaven I see the soul much more forward in the body.
-Self-love is about valuing and loving who you are.
-Your guardian angel loves you unconditionally.
-"Dear God
Please help me to release that most
precious gift you have given me of
love,
That gift of love that comes from 
Heaven and is connected to my soul.
Amen"
-We all need to be aware when tough things happen to us, that we have a choice of how to respond.

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The state of flow. Mihaly Csikszentmihaly

How Does It Feel to Be in the Flow?

Thousands of people from every wake of like were interviewed by Dr. Csikszentmihalyi and his team in order to identify the key components of the flow state. These seven points summarize how those interviewed responded that they felt when in the flow state:

1. You’re completely involved in what you’re doing: you’re completely focused and concentrated.
2. There’s a sense of ecstasy–of being outside of everyday reality.
3. There’s a great inner clarity: you know what needs to be done and you get immediate feedback on how well you’re doing.
4. You know that the activity is doable, that you have the necessary skills to complete the task successfully.
5. You lose your sense of self and all of your worries and concerns drift away.
6. You lose track of time and you’re completely focused on the present moment.
7. There’s an intrinsic motivation—whatever produces flow becomes it’s own reward.

Interestingly enough, the idea of flow came into being as result of research on happiness. Researchers began asking themselves: “What makes us happy?” and “When are we most happy”? As a result of this research psychologists realized that being able to enter the flow state–which is a very enjoyable experience–is a key component of happiness.

How to Achieve the Flow State

From everything stated above it can be seen that in order to achieve the flow state you need to do the following:

• Find a challenge. Choose something that you enjoy doing. It can be anything, whether it’s playing the piano, working on your novel, skiing, horseback riding, playing golf, and so on.

• Develop your skills in order to be able to meet the challenge. Remember that if something is too easy you’ll be bored–and your mind is likely to wander so you won’t achieve the flow state–, and if something is too hard you’ll be overwhelmed and you won’t be able to achieve that subconscious competence that is necessary for the flow state.

• Set clear goals. You want to be very clear on what you want to achieve and how you’ll know whether you’re succeeding. Here’s an example: “I’m going to write a blog post on how to achieve the flow state.  I’ll know that I’m succeeding if I can clearly set forth what the flow state is, what it’s major components are, why it’s beneficial, and how to achieve it.”

• Focus completely on the task at hand. Eliminate all other distractions. You don’t want anything to take your attention away from the task that you’re performing; if your concentration is broken you’re going to exit the state of flow.

• Make sure that you’ve set aside sufficient time. It’s very likely that it’s going to take you at least fifteen minutes to start to get into the flow state, and a while longer after that until you’re fully immersed. Once you enter the flow state you want to make sure that you make the most of it, instead of having to stop prematurely because you have to go do something else.

• Monitor your emotional state. If you meet all of the requirements above, but you’re having trouble entering the flow state, monitor your emotional state. If you’re in an aroused state–angry, anxious, worried, and so on–, try doing something that will calm you down. Do you feel that your energy level is low and you’re feeling sluggish? Do something to pick up your energy levels, whether it’s doing jumping jacks, having a healthy snack, reading something motivational, or calling a friend who makes you laugh.

Conclusion

To conclude, here’s a quote from a poet on the flow state:

“It’s like opening a door that’s floating in the middle of nowhere and all you have to do is go and turn the handle and open it and let yourself sink into it. You can’t particularly force yourself through it. You just have to float. If there’s any gravitational pull, it’s from the outside world trying to keep you back from the door.”

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Knight. My story. Quotes XVII

-Pete Newell always used to tell me you should not stay any place very long.
-Constantly trying to get back to a level that very few have ever reached weighs on you.
-I have never felt my job was to win basketball games, rather that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life. To the absolute best of my ability, I have tried to provide them with a work ethic, and ability to excel at crucial times, and a determination to be as good as they could be at whatever they do.
-Not everyone you think is a friend is a friend. No one could possibly have more good friends in more walks of life that I have had. Those people, like me, don't confer friendship easily.
-When the one great scorer comes to mark against your name, it matters not that you won or lost, but how you played the game. Grantland Rice.
-Caring for and being honest with people is a pretty meaningful way to 'play the game'.
-Where I have been most fortunate is something I had nothing to do with. It occurred the moment I was born, to great parents, in America.
-A part of that grace is a responsibility I believe each of us has: to make sure we provide those who follow us with the same opportunities you and I were given by those who preceded us. That's uppermost among all that I have tried to do as a coach. I and thousands of other coaches and teachers that kids across this country have been fortunate enough to have at some point in their lives.

Knight. My story. Quotes XVI

-What I missed most was spending every little idle moment with ideas going through my mind of what I could try tomorrow with the kids or the team I had, and then seen how those ideas worked. As long as I was coaching, I always kept a notepad next to the bed, in case I thought of something during the night that I wanted to write down, so I would not forget it.
-Our defense was offense without the ball.
-Winning is basically eliminating why you lose.
-You have to be single-minded. drive only for one thing on which you have decided... And if it looks as if you might be getting there, all kinds of people, including some you thought were your loyal friends, will suddenly show up doing their hypocritical God damnedest to trip you, blacken you, and break your spirit. General Patton.
-Only a few people understand the meaning of the word friend, and those people are special. An awful lot more have no idea of what the world entails.
-I've always felt time should be used well, and thinking is a great way to use it. All those years in coaching, I spent countless hours thinking about, working on, deciding what improvements could be made, how our team could be better, or I could  get more out of a kid, or something that would enable us to be a better basketball team.
-I believe so strongly in some of the premises of my approach to coaching basketball that, as I have always hoped they will be for the kids I have coached, I find them valuable and applicable in my own real life.
-You have got to be back in coaching. Basketball needs you. Sports needs you. You are the last of a dying breed.
-I don't think you can survive an intense occupation without diversions that you love, things that take you away from work or get your mind on other things, or in a relaxed atmosphere, allow you to continue thinking about your job and what all is necessary with it.
-How much she could see in what she watched.

Knight. My story. Quotes XV

-When I see in print something that has happened where I've been involved that is so different from what actually happened, how can I ever believe what's on the front page, either?
-They see the right to criticize as a one way street. The press can attack managers, coaches, players, teams, or presidents, but boy, if any of those people who are under attack dare to fire back, the whole profession is offended.
-Smitty's was a down-home place. No money was wasted on decor. Joe Kleine of our Olympic team reminded me just last fall of the time I told the team to get dressed up, I was taking them to a very nice restaurant and I didn't want them to be embarrassed. 'We entered this little diner through the kitchen with everyone laughing at us'. Joe said, 'and we proceeded to have a great time with the bunch of locals there'. that of course, was Smitty's.
-New Yorkers like David Halbersam or Dick Schaap would come into town and want to go to lunch, guys used to going to someplace expensive and elegant. With me they would get Smitty's, Rosie's, or the Marsh grocery deli. They would always want to pick up the tab, but that sometimes got complicated. Halberstam picked up the bill once, looked at it, and said: 'I can't turn this in. They would laugh at me'. The two of us had eaten for something like 5.45$.
But those places were perfect for me: cooks and employees and daily customers who kept me up on what was going on in their lives and otherwise left me and anyone with me pretty much alone, just part of their crown. I have already found some of the same kind of places in Lubbock.
-From a basketball standpoint, he was very average player with one outstanding quality, passing , understanding where people were.
-I used to ask players who they played with who understood the game best.
-Patrick Knight is my all time favorite Indiana player.

Knight. My story. Quotes XIV

-I love to coach and I love its human involvements.
-The last thing I expected was an orchestrated attempt to keep me from getting any job.
-If presidents anywhere truly want to clean up academics, they could do it with one simple rule: you tie the number of scholarships you can give to the number of graduates you have.
-I am Coach Knight or Mr. Knight to you. You should remember that the next time you are talking to an older person.
-The tactics each time were exactly the same: they fired, they fell back, they went to Plan B, character assassination. They did me a favor. They did what I could not bring myself to do. They got me out of there.
-When that meeting ended, I met with my coaches and told them I had no idea what Indiana would do with their contracts, but if they wound up out of a job without a settlement, not to worry, I would pay their salaries out of my own pocket and take all of them with me whenever and wherever I got a new job.
-I thought what a shame it was to be fired by people who were totally out of touch with what those kids, the heart of the university, represented.
-I read the affection of that turnout as an indication that they knew our players were always students, just like they were... that our players had to work like hell, we demanded a lot of them, but they also went to class, just like each of them did... and that they enjoyed going to basketball games, watching our kids play and rooting from them. If that was my last view and my last memory of Indiana University, it was one that will stay in my mind as long as I live.
-Brand limited full professors to two percent increases at the time athletic department personnel were getting a three and a half percent increase and key figures in my firing, Clapacs and Frapwell for two, were getting twenty five percent raises, about forty thousand dollars each. I have a feeling he did not mention any of those things in his Washington speech.
-He doesn't think he is ever wrong. I know I have been wrong many times, dozens of times. We are talking about twenty nine years. And I have acknowledged a temper problem that I have to work harder to corral. Balance those off against the things I have done right. It's not even close.
-I used to test myself:
How well do I get along with kids who player for me?
How well do I get along with coaches who have coached form me?
How well do I get along with opposing coaches?
How well do I get along with high school coaches?
How well did I get along with IU fans?
How well have I gotten along really with basketball officials?
With all of those groups, I would say I have gotten along good to great. Who have not I gotten along with? The press.

Knight. My story. Quotes XIII

-People are inclined to believed the written word. So am I, like these from Theodore Roosevelt:

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. 

And from Vince Lombardi:

It's a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men... There is something in good men that really years for, needs, discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat. I don't say these things because I believe in the 'brute' nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious. 

I love those images. I've had the privilege of watching kids I've coached do all those things. Now, blend in there the opportunity I had as a coach to point kids toward a college degree and a lifetime of competing fairly, squarely, decently, by the rules, but to win, in whatever career they choose, and you have the reason why not just I but lots of career coaches in both high school and college keep coaching when, as coaches, they have nothing left to prove.

Knight. My story. By Bobby Knight. Quotes XII

-Each one of us told them the same thing: he was doing a great job, under uniquely difficult conditions, in a state that didn't produce many Big Ten football players. I was particularly impressed when he took Colorado to the Orange Bowl and then was fired two years later after telling some big donors where to stick their money when they started suggesting things he could do to compete better with Oklahoma and Nebraska. On Bill Mallory firing.
-Coaching, kind of like the military, has a promotion system and has had it for ever. In coaching, it usually involves moving. You win somewhere, you get an invitation to go to a better job. And if you win some more, you move up again.
-Coaches are hired or fired, promoted or dismissed, based on how many games and championships they have won and, to a great extent, how many tickets were sold.
-They showed a lot more interest in developing that elitist golf course than in improving the salaries of professors, or retaining any of the outstanding professors that they had inherited from past administrations but had lost to other schools in the last five years.
-Never complain, never explain.
-They were an amazingly free-spending group on their own behalf for an outfit that could find only two percent raises for its best professors.
-When you were contacted, we got an immediate response, and a check. I'll never forget that. They couldn't find $1000 for a tribute to a man who had done so much for IU in so many ways as Isiah Thomas had.
-I continued to coach at Indiana for many reasons. A major one was how much I enjoyed  the whole process of coaching. And that process starts with the kids involved: what I can do with them in basketball, what I can do to help shape their lives.

Knight. My story. By Bobby Knight. Quotes XI

-A lot of times over the years I have walked back to the hotel after a game-day shooting practice and let the team ride the bus back without me. I've always enjoyed walking.
-Of all the coaches I met from foreign countries, Antonio Diaz Miguel and Kondrashin were my favorites.
-I coach basketball. That's no stress. What a brain surgeon or a heart surgeon does everyday is stress.
-The score of the game has never meant a whole lot to me where carelessness was concerned.
-If you decide to go, you are not coming back here.
-We are failing in college basketball if a kid who leaves us at twenty-two is not really well prepared to enter post-basketball life, whether that is after a career in the pros or without one.
-My game is educating kids.
-I've always laughed at people who talk about how complicated the game we teach is. If a kid can play, he can play, and age doesn't really have a lot to do with that.

Knight. My story. By Bobby Knight. Quotes X

-A Nike official told me one time during negotiations that the only two coaches he was aware of who gave shoe money back to their university were Bear Bryant and I.
-Indiana kids were a priority for me.
-Calbert, Calbert, you are too good to play like this.
-I don't want a point guard and a shooting guard. I want both of them to be able to shoot. In neither of them can shoot, then I want both of them to be tough, big rebounders who can play defense.
-We all have things that we wish we could do over again.
-I've always enjoyed going to movies.
-The George Steinbrenner I know and like a lot above everything else is a damned good man.
-This is the time, 1994 or 1995, when I should have left.
-To win, you have to eliminate the reasons why you lose: sloppy ball handling, poor defensive effort, lack of boxout, poor shot selection, etc.
-Basketball is a game of errors.You try to reduce the number of errors to give your team the best chance to win.

Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes IX

-I told him no, I couldn't do that. He said, 'Take it', put it in my hands and headed out to the field. I meant it: I didn't think it was right to do that. So, I put it on a shelf in his locker and went out to watch the game. PETE ROSE'S GLOVE OFFERING TO BOBBY.
-One thing my Dad pounded away at me when I was a kid growing up was 'Never get involved with gambling in any way'. And I never have. I've always been antigambling.
-Last Game, Next Game.
-Controlling the tempo. (Expression)
-Their strength was their defense, not their offense. I felt if we tried to hold the ball, all we were doing was playing into their defensive strength.
-The year before, when things just weren't fitting together for us, I went to a three-guard lineup and we put a pretty good run together.
-He was made to play this game, his size, his abilities, his understanding of the game. (On Edwards).
-Screening was the guts of our offense,  the heart of it.
-I experiment every day with what we do offensively, not defensively, but offensively. There's a dynamic to our play offensively as well as defensively that just doesn't exist in most offensive and defensive basketball. We change daily. What we emphasize in our offense in this game may not even be involved in the next game, except in the very basic fundamentals of play.
-I always felt you can beat average, mediocre teams in a lot of ways. You can only beat good teams with good, solid basketball.
-Shoe money. I always used some of it to add to the income of our coaching staff and others, including secretaries in my office and others in the support staff.
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Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes VIII

-You and I have sixty one seconds of international basketball left and then we are done with it.
-During a time out at one of our pre-Olympics games with the pros, I asked our players: 'hey, what the hell does Jordan do to you in practice when you have to play him one on one? Somebody tell me what it's like'
One of them said: 'Well, it's hard. It's tough. He tear us up'
Then, I said: 'do you think there is any chance we could see that he gets the ball a little bit tonight, because he is going to do the same thing to these guys that he does to you'.
-There were a lot of times that night when I felt tears welling up and I was genuinely close to letting them go, certainly when our kids were standing up there on the medal stand, wearing their gold medals, while the national anthem played and the American flag went up in their honor.
-The possibility of losing is what makes winning mean something.
-When Steve Raid was at the free-throw line to shoot the technical for Purdue, I wheeled around, picked up a plastic chair, and sent it scooting across the court.
-I made one of my biggest mistakes: I agreed to open our Indiana basketball program, from the start of practice in fall 1985 to our last game, to John Feinstein of the Washington Post, for a book he would write. He had an incredible access to everything. And, with my full knowledge, he got unbelievable help from my assistant coaches, mainly Royce Waltmana and Kohn Smith. Feinstein made a ton of money out of the thing and never once offered to endow a scholarship or do anythingat all for Royce and Kohn, who were putting kids through college on assistant coaches' salaries. He did not owe me a cent. I didn't want anything from him at all, I had made that plain. But when profits came in for him way beyond any possible expectations, he sure as hell could have done something on his own to help those guys.
-I don't think you're ever more sorry or disappointed than when a marriage doesn't work out. My wife, Nancy and I did get a divorce. I blame myself for it far more than her because I spent so much time trying to develop a career  in coaching.

Top 10 signs you are a great teammate

10. You're willing to play any role that helps the team

9. You would rather score less and win, than score a lot and lose

8. When your team scores, the first people you congratulate are your teammates

7. You LOVE practice as much as you LOVE games

6. You respect your opponents but don't fear them

5. You listen; you are coachable; you respect your coaches, teammates, officials and opponets.

4. You are quick to pick up a teammate who is having a bad day

3. You help younger teammates who have less experience

2. You learn & grow from your own mistakes, as well as others

1. You're confident but not arrogant. 

Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes VII

-I don't think any coach in history has saved more time-outs than I have, in the interest of making my team more self-reliant.
-I've always had an ass-to-the-brain theory: when a player's ass gets put on the bench, a message goes straight from the ass to the brain saying: get me off of here.
-I did not want to negotiate and hassle: tell me the highest you can go, and let me make a decision.
-We met every morning and every night to discuss players: who had played well, who hadn't, and who we should look at and keep. (Olympics 84)
-If you don't think you are the best prepared for a basketball game you have ever been, I want you to tell me about it, because we have to do something to make sure that you are.
-I took a picture of his gold medal and I gave each of them a 3x5 and a 8x10 photograph, one for their pockets and another to be put above their beds.
-You are going to be the leader on this team, you are the best player, so I will expect more from you and demand more from you. But I will probably at times get on you when you don't deserve it. I am simply giving everybody else a message.
-Whenever I have had guys who could score, they have scored. And I have wanted the other guys on my teams to understand part of their job was to make that happen.
-There were a lot of times that night when I felt tears welling up and I was genuinely close to letting them go, certainly when our kids were standing up there on he medal stand, wearing their gold medals, while the national anthem played and the American flag went up in their honor.
-The possibility of losing is what makes winning mean something.
-I had gotten tired of wearing a good dress shirt, tie and coat. Who the hell were you fooling? I have worn a golf shirt and a sweater ever since.

Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes VI

-I have always had people come in and talk to my teams. I wanted them to hear from successful people their thoughts on why they were successful and what it took to be successful.
-Coach, don't officiate.
-Both knew how to play.
-Knowing when to quit is a rarity.
-I never drank. I never took a puff on a cigarette, ever. I am so unalterably opposed to those things that it's hard for me to accept people in athletics smoking, drinking, or using drugs.
-I judge too many situations by what I would do, forgetting that not everybody is going to do what I do, or react the way I'd react, which my wife Karen says is probably a real plus for the whole world.
-I told them if anybody lied to me, he was gone.
-Like all really good teams, they were well put together and very well coached.
-My practices are quiet. That's my classroom, where I do my teaching.

Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes V

-I was always kind of scared: I just wanted my team play well. From a coaching standpoint, the greatest fear I've ever had is that in some way I might not have prepared my team as well as I could have. I am always afraid I have left something out, or overlooked something. If you have done that, you have shortchanged your players. They are not as well prepared as they should be.
-Our bus when we were on the way to a game was always quiet. I wanted it that way, not tense, but quiet, everyone thinking about the game.
-We did not have much of an offensive break. We would run on a steal or if we had real positive numbers on a break: two on one; three on one; three on two.
-I wanted short (no more than 4 meters) outlet passes, unless somebody ahead was wide open. The most important thing in the break it to get there with the ball, and then work to get a good shot.
-We loved playing motion.
-I never held back anything we did when I spoke at clinics.
-They could count as high as the number of passes I wanted before they shot (four).
-I felt we had to play our best shooter at the top of the key.
-The objective was not to win, was not to lose a game. The only way we will lose is when we have ourselves to blame.
-When someone is willing to go a little out of their way, or a lot out of their way to do something for anyone, that is a great mark for that person in my eyes.

Basketball Drills - Outlet Pass

Bob Knight- Box Out

Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes IV

-Of all the  great things my mom did for me, nothing was better than making me be a reader.
-You don't have to score to be a good basketball player.
-Let the bench guys play whenever you can.
-I have changed starting lineups maybe more  than any coach in basketball usually as a reward for a kid for what he did in practice or for his play in a game.
-How gracious great veteran coaches could be.
-I don't want to take anything away from the other team's accomplishment, and I don't want our team grasping at excuses.
-A lot of coaches know X's and O's but don't see things well.
-The first thing you have to have in coaching or anything else is a confidence in your ability to do the job.
-I felt that utilizing deception and being unpredictable, unrecognizable, and difficult to scout were instrumental in offensive success. I have always wanted the cutter to have options. So if the defense does one thing, the cutter can do another thing. It is not something that just goes one, two, three, four. In basketball, if you run a set play, a smart defense doesn't have to react to what you are doing, they can do something prior to your move, because they know the movement as well as the offense does.
-Princeton played with keys: if the passer went inside, that was one thing; if he cut to the bucket, it was another thing. I tried to incorporate that in Indiana but almost exclusively on reading the defense and the position of the ball.
-Spacing is one of the two keys to utilization of the court in offensive play. The second is floor balance, keeping players in positions that maintain an ability to attack both sides of the floor.
-We spent a lot of October practicing four on four and five on five without allowing a dribble.
-The only obligation you have to your players is that they know your are starting the best lineup you have. 

Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes III

-Our defensive rules are based on each player's knowing where the ball is and trying to keep it from going where we don't want it to go.
-A combination of the two types of defense man to man and zone, within the same possession could be very good.
-When we are playing against a really good shooter, we don't help from him at all. (The player who is with him, doesn't go to help anybody else)
-The team preparation facet of coaching is based on figuring out two basic things: how to stop somebody and how could we score on that opponent. It's a matter of having a sound fundamental base. On offense, your players don't take bad shots. They don't throw the ball away. They move without the ball. They help each other get open. On defense, your teams don't give up easy points on conversion, on fast breaks. They don't commit bad fouls and they have to control the lane, and know where the ball is at all times.
-The mental is to the physical as four is to one. And one thing more almost supersedes everything else: enthusiasm.
-Offensively, if it is a pressuring man to man we have to take the ball to the bucket: catch the ball, face, fake and drive. Do that, do it well, and you will be on the foul line. Almost invariably.
-My job is to get us to play as well as we can as often as we can. More than anything else, that's what I have to do and it will have a direct carry over to whatever each kid winds up doing in life.
-It is much better to make things happen than wait for things to happen.
-If you are going to accept pay for something, do it right.
-If you can't pay for it, do without until you can. The only time my dad ever owed a cent was when he took a twenty years mortgage. He gave up everything he liked to do and paid off the mortgage in over four years. He is the most honest man I have ever known.

Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes II

-Get your players understand not just that something works, but why.
-I have to understand the strengths and the weaknesses of every player who plays for me.
-Play to your strengths and away from your weaknesses.
-Great players maximize their talent and make everybody around them better. It is no accident that they do this. They understand the game, and they understand the strengths and weaknesses of their teammates and  their opponent. That comes from thinking. There is nothing more important that a basketball player can do. Above else, think.
-Think about those things that you don't like to play against. Then, do them yourself at both ends of the floor.
-I use the word 'understand' often. I want my players to understand why teams lose: poor shot selection, bad passing, failure to block out defensively, lack of pressure on the ball.
-To me, concentration is basketball in a nutshell. Concentration leads to anticipation, which leads to recognition, which leads to reaction, which leads to execution.
-I am a great believer in understanding what goes into losing, because if we know how we can lose, if we know those factors or reasons that cause us to lose, and we eliminate those things, we stand a much better chance of winning.
-We play our game with our own additional rules, my rules on how I want the game played.

Knight. My story. By Bob Knight. Quotes

-I was told by Brand in May that I could stay on as a coach under what the president called 'zero tolerance'. Obviously, I should have quit right there.
-But quitting is a hard thing for me to do, and it became all the harder because I let myself get soft. I was just too comfortable in the life I had created for myself in a town that had been special to me.
-My thoughts on coaching came from my own studying and experimenting, and from discussions with coaches and phone calls I made over the years in search of answers and ideas about basketball.
-The first time I really got to know Coach Lapchick was a significant moment in my coaching career. I asked him if I could sit down and talk with him sometime. He game me his home address, which I have never forgotten: 3 Wendover Lane in Yorkers.
-My cornerstones:
1. If you worry whether people like you or not, you can never make tough decisions correctly.
2. The very first thing you had to be was a teacher, and you had to teach kids how to play basketball.
3. Make sure your best players are in their absolute best roles. Then use supplementary players in just that, supplementary roles.
4. An appreciation of basketball of something never to be mastered but always, every day of every year, to be studied with an unflagging zeal for answers and a duty to pass them on.
5. An unyielding, untiring passion for teaching kids to understand the game of basketball and carry this understanding and sense of commitment into all walks of life.
-Playing smart is a function of positioning, of placement, of recognition.

Calendar Book 2017 November #11. Knight: my story

Wooden. Quotes VI

-Some drills would be good for all and some drills would be good for just certain players.
-Some drills must be done every single day of the year.
-The pressure I created during practices may have exceeded that which opponents produced.
-Reviewing and analyzing everything. Details, details... Develop a love for details. They usually accompany success.
-Having beliefs and standing up for them go to the issue of character.
-Nobody is bigger than the team. Nobody!
-Talent is God-given: be humble.
Fame is man-given: be thankful
Conceit is self-given: be careful
-What is your offer?
If I say yes, it is final.
If I say no, it is final too.
-Leaders must always generate enthusiasm.
-There is something going on around us at all times from which we can acquire knowledge if we are alert. Be observing constantly, quick to spot a weakness and correct it or use it, as the case may warrant.
-Initiative is the courage to make decisions and take action.
-You must believe in yourself if you expect others to believe in you.
-Competitive greatness is to be at your best when your best is needed.
-If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?
-The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do for themselves. Abraham Lincoln.
-Never make excuses.
-Material things are not gifts but apologies for gifts. The only true gift  is a portion of yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-Forget favors given. Remember those received.

Wooden. Quotes V

-Don't compare yourself to somebody else, especially materially.
-We get stronger when we test ourselves.
-The final score is not the final score.
-It is better to travel hopefully that arrive. R. L. Stevenson.
-In great attempt it is glorious even to fail.
-There is no area of basketball in which I am a genius. None. Tactically and strategically I am just average, and this is not offering false modesty. We won championships because I was above average  in analyzing players, getting them to fill roles as part of a team, paying attention to fundamentals and details, and working well with others.
-I loved all my players. I did not like them all, but I did love them all.
-The privilege of practicing had been taken away. It was the worst punishment of all: Gentlemen, practice is over.
-We were better off letting our opponents try to figure us out than spending time trying to figure them out. We focused on preparing for any eventuality rather than a particular style of play from a particular team.
-I never wanted to call the first time out during a game.
-There is very little difference in technical knowledge about the game of basketball among most experienced coaches. However, there is a vast difference between leaders in their ability to teach and to motivate those under their supervision.
-I wanted my players to display style and class in both victory and defeat.
-I used the bench to teach.

Wooden. Quotes IV

-Neatness and courtesy make you feel good about yourself. And when you feel good about yourself you are more productive.
-9 promises that can bring happiness
1. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity  as often as possible.
2. Make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.
3. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best in yourself and others.
4. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
5. Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
6. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future.
7. Wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.
8. Give so much to improving yourself that you have not time to criticize others.
9. Be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, too happy to permit trouble to press on you.
-Losing is only temporary. Study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again.
-I believe we were more successful in some years when we did not win a championship than in some years when we did.
-The real competitors love a tough situation. That is when they focus better and function better. At moments of maximum pressure, they want the ball.
-Often great competitors don't quite have the physical skills of more gifted players, but they get more out of what they have at moments of great pressure.
-I base my judgment on not just what they had but how they used it.
-Work creates luck.
-Adversity often produces the unexpected opportunity. Look for it. Appreciate and utilize it.
-A true athlete should have character, not be a character.
-Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but rather by what you should have accomplished with you abilities.

Wooden. Quotes III

-I know many eminently successful people who never made a lot of money and never gained any high position or recognition. They simply and quietly raised a family, worked hard, and had a job that allowed them to take care of their family. These individuals and their families are a big success by my definition.
-The journey is better than the inn.
-The preparation is where success is truly found.
-The outcome of a game was simply a by-product of the effort we made to prepare.
-Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
-You can make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming others for those mistakes.
-I have never gone into a game thinking we were going to lose. Never. Even though there have been games where the experts said there was no way we could win.
-What do you believe in? Are you willing to stand up for it despite what others may think or say?
-Never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.
-Details create success.
-What joy can be derived from overcoming someone who is not as capable as you are?
-I don't care if you are tall, but I do care if you play tall.
-No matter how much they accumulate, they never achieve peace of mind because they want more.
-Eight suggestions for succeeding:
1. Fear no opponent. Respect every opponent.
2. It's the perfection of the smallest details that make big things happen.
3. Hustle makes up for many a mistake.
4. Be more interested in character than reputation
5. Be quick, but don't hurry.
6. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.
7. Valid self-analysis is crucial for improvement.
8. There is no substitute for hard work and careful planning. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

Lucy. By William Wordsworth

                                                     LUCY.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways
   Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
   And very few to love:

   A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
   —Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.


   She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;                                   
   But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!

Wooden. Quotes II

-You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.
-Family is first. Always. Always.
-Show leadership. Show discipline. Show industriousness. Have traditional values. The person you are is the person your child will become.
-Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are.
-Learn as if you were going to live forever and live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
-There is nothing wrong with having faults so long as you work conscientiously to correct them.
-No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
-You often find what you are looking for.
-If you think too much about the pursuit of material things, you are going to hurt those youngsters you are working so hard to buy material things for.
-Happiness is in may things. It's in love. It's in sharing. But most of all, it's in being at peace with yourself  knowing that you are making the effort, the full effort, to do what is right.
-True happiness comes from the things that cannot be taken away from you.
-Blaming somebody else, it's weakness.
-Six ways to bring out the best in people:
1. Keep courtesy and consideration for others foremost in your mind, at home and away.
2. Try to have fun without trying to be funny.
3. While you cannot control what happens to you, you can control how you react. Make good manners an automatic reaction.
4. Seek individual opportunities to offer a genuine compliment.
5. Sincerity, optimism, and enthusiasm are more welcome than sarcasm, pessimism, and laziness.
6. Laugh with others, never at them.
-I have prepared for death all of my life by the life I lived. Socrates.
-And now, like Socrates, I have no fear of death. When it comes I can be with her again.

Wooden. Quotes

-Games actually seemed like they happened in a slower gear because of the pace at which we practiced.
-When four guys touched the ball in two seconds and the fifth guy hit a lay-up, man, what a feeling!. Bill Walton.
-The real competition he was preparing us for was life. Bill Walton.
-He discouraged expressing emotion on the court, stressing that it would eventually leave us vulnerable to opponents.
-Two sets of threes:
1. Never lie.
2. Never cheat.
3. Never steal.

1. Don't whine.
2. Don't complain.
3. Don't make excuses.

-Seven things  to do:
1. Be true to yourself.
2. Help others.
3. Make each day your masterpiece.
4. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible.
5. Make friendship a fine art.
6. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
7. Pray for guidance and count and give thanks for you blessings every day.

-Never believe you are better than anybody else, but remember that you are just as good as everybody else.
-We disagreed but we were never disagreeable.
-Love means many things. It means giving. It means sharing. It means forgiving. It means understanding. It means being patient. It means learning. And you must always consider the other side, the other person.
-The best thing a man can do for this children is to love their mother. Abraham Lincoln.

Calendar Book 2017 October #10. Wooden. A lifetime of observations and reflections on and off the court. By John Wooden and Steve Jamison

Grit by Angela Duckworth

-Have a fierce resolve in everything you do. Demonstrate determination, resiliency, and tenacity. Do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses. Use mistakes and problems as opportunities to get better, not reasons to quit.
-Talent is common; what you invest to develop that talent is the critical final measure of greatness.
-If you want to create a great culture, you have to have a collection of core values that everyone lives.
-Each year that you play soccer for Anson Dorrance, you must memorize three different literary quotes, each handpicked to communicate a different core value. You will be  tested in front of the team in pre-season and then tested again in every player conference. Not only do you have to memorize them, but you have to understand them. So reflect on them as well.
-It was not so much the physical challenges as the mental toughness required to cope with all the yelling and screaming.
-If you create a vision for yourself and stick with it, you can make amazing things happen in your life.
-It is really the guy across from us that makes us who we are. Our opponent creates challenges that help us become our best selves.
-The social multiplier effect: one person's grit enhances the grit of the others.
-John Wooden: Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
-Always compete. You are either competing or you are not. Compete in everything you do. . Finish strong. Positive self-talk. Team first.
-Two key factors promote excellence in individuals and in teams: deep and rich support and relentless challenge to improve.
-No whining. No complaining. No excuses. Always protect the team. Be early.

Teddy Roosevelt Quote on Bravery

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who point out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Grit by Angela Duckworth. Quotes VI

-Grit is forged in the crucible of adversity.
-First to practice and last to leave.
-Once you commit, you discipline yourself to do it. There is going to be times you don't want to go, but you have to go.
-I am giving you all I got.
-Go and follow your dreams and if they don't work out, then you can reassess.
-When you really do what you really want to do, it becomes a vocation.
-Children need freedom but also need limits.
-When our parents are loving, respectful and demanding, we not only follow  their example , we revere it.
- I overcame situations slightly outside my comfort zone through trial and error, through doing... and I succeeded.
-Most people are born with tremendous potential. The real question is whether they are encouraged to employ the good old-fashioned hard work and their grit to its maximum. In the end, those are the people who seem to be the most successful.
-What poor kids need is a decent childhood.
-The Hard Thing Rule:
1. Everyone has to do a hard thing.
2. You can quit but not on a bad day. Only at the end of the term, or season.
3. You get to pick your hard thing.
-The real way to to become a great swimmer is to join a great team.
-If I am in a crowd of people doing things a certain way, I follow along.
-The source of our strength is the person we know ourselves to be.
-Doctors told him he might never walk again. You don't know me. Tom replied.
-Failures are going to happen, and how you deal with them may be the most important thing in whether you succeed. You need fierce resolve. You need to take responsibility. You call it grit. I call it fortitude.
-What do you look for in your leadership team? Capability, character, how they treat people. Would I let them run the business without me? Would I let my kids work for them?

Grit by Angela Duckworth. Quotes V

-What do these grit paragons have in common? Daily rituals. Hours and hours of solitary deliberate practice.
-Purpose means the intention to contribute to the well-being of others.
-Pleasure is moderately important no matter how gritty you are.
-Higher scores on purpose correlate with higher scores on the Grit scale.
-Purpose is a tremendously powerful source of motivation.
-How you see your work is more important that your job title.
-Michael's passion is well-being through mindfulness. It took him years to integrate his personal interest in mindfulness with the other-centered purpose of helping people lead healthier, happier lives. Only when interest and purpose melded did he feel like he was doing what he had been put on this planet to do.
-Leaders and employees who keep both personal and prosocial interests in mind do better in the long run than those who are 100 percent selfishly motivated.
-It is not suffering that leads to hopelessness. It is suffering you think you can't control.
-I got up again and kept fighting.
-Optimists are just as likely to encounter bad events as pessimists. Where they diverge is in their explanations: optimists habitually search for temporary and specific causes of their suffering, whereas pessimists assume permanent and pervasive causes are to blame.
-I don't think in terms of disappointment. Everything that happens is something I can learn from.
-She suspected it was not just a long string of failures that made these children pessimistic, but rather their core beliefs about success and learning.
-They learned to interpret failure as a cue to try harder rather than as confirmation that they lacked the ability to succeed.
-People develop theories about themselves and the world, and it determines what they do.
-When you have setbacks and failures, you can't overreact to them. You need to step back, analyze them, and learn from them. But you also need to stay optimistic.
-Keep working hard and learning, and it will all work out.
-If you experience adversity that you overcome on your own during your youth, you develop a different way of dealing with adversity later on.
-Intelligence, or any other talent, can improve with effort. The brain changes itself when you struggle to master a new challenge.
-Rhonda eventually earned a PhD in mathematics and, after seventy-nine of her eighty applications for a faculty position were rejected, she took a job at the single university that made her an offer.
-You actually develop the ability to do mathematics. Don't give up!

Grit by Angela Duckworth. Quotes IV.

-The ten thousand hour rule and the then year rule.
-It is not that experts log more hours of practice. Rather, it's that experts practice differently.
-You are not improving because you are not doing deliberate practice.
-Experts strive to improve specific weaknesses.
-Many experts choose to strive while nobody is watching. The amount of time musicians devote to practicing alone is a much better predictor of how quickly they develop than time spent practicing with other musicians.
-What about reading for fun? Nada. There was not even a hint of a relationship between reading for fun, which they all enjoyed, and spelling prowess.
-Deliberate practice is experienced as supremely effortful.
-Deliberate practice is for preparation, and flow is for performance.
-Basic requirements of deliberate practice:
1. A clearly defined stretch goal.
2. Full concentration and effort.
3. Immediate and informative feedback.
4. Repetition with reflection and refinement.
-It's not hours of brute-force exhaustion you are after. It is high-quality, thoughtful training goals pursued, for just a few hours a day, tops.
-Trying to do things they cannot yet do, failing, and learning what they need to do differently is exactly they way experts practice.
-Focus on your weaknesses and focus one hundred per cent.
-Routines are godsend when it comes to doing something hard.
-When you have a habit of practicing at the same time and in the same place every day, you hardly have to think about getting started. You just do.

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Grit by Angela Duckworth. Quotes III

-Improvise, adapt, overcome. Green Berets motto.
-On any long journey, detours are to be expected.
-Every human trait is influenced by both genes and experience.
-Against intuition, talents are not entirely genetic: the rate at which we develop any skill is also, crucially, a function of experience.
-She learns to do what she needs to do.
-Lectures don't have half the effect of consequences.
-We get grittier as we get older.
-The psychological assets that mature paragons of grit have in common: interest; practice; purpose; and hope.
-Within the last decade or so, scientists who study interests have arrived at a definitive answer. First, research shows that people are enormously more satisfied with their jobs when they do something that fits personal interests. Second, people perform better at work when what they do interests them.
-Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening.
-Interests are not discovered by introspection, but by the interaction with the outside world.
-The grittier an individual is, the fewer career changes they're likely to make.
-If you would like to follow your passion but haven't yet fostered one, you must begin at the beginning: discovery. Ask yourself a few simple questions:
1. What do I like to think about?
2. Where does my mind wander?
3. What do I really care about?
4. What matters most to me?
5. How do I enjoy spending my time?
6. In contrast, what do I find absolutely unbearable?
-Grit is not just about quantity of time devoted to interests, but also quality of time. Not just more time on task, but also better time on task.

Grit by Angela Duckworth. Quotes II

Nietzsche. -No one can see in the work of the artist how it has become.
-Talent is how quickly your skills improve when you invest effort. Achievement is what happens when you take your acquired skills and use them.
-Eighty per cent of success in life is showing up.
-When you don't come back the next day, when you permanently turn your back on a commitment, your effort plummets to zero.
-Consistency of effort over the long run is everything.
-With effort, talent becomes skill and, at the very same time,effort makes skill productive.
-Do you have a life philosophy?
-Do things better than they have ever been done before.
-The pivotal moment came at a low point in his coaching career: just after getting fired as a head coach of the New England Patriots: Pete did a lot of thinking and reflecting. At the same time he was devouring the books of John Wooden.
-Though a team has to do a million things well, figuring out the overarching vision is of utmost importance.
-A clear, well-defined philosophy gives you the guidelines and boundaries that keep you on track.
-Why do you care about being punctual? Because being punctual shows respect for the people with whom you work. Why is that important? Because you strive to be a good leader.
-You are not capricious.
-Morally, there was not right decision, only a decision that was right for me.
-The gritty person will be disappointed, or even heartbroken, but not for long.

Grit by Angela Duckworth. Quotes

-What we eventually accomplish may depend more on our passion and perseverance than on our innate talent.
-I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I'll strive to be the grittiest.
-In the long run, grit may matter more than talent.
-Grit is mutable, not fixed.
-Who are the people at the very top of your field? What are they like? What do you think makes them special?
-High achievers were constantly driven to improve: they were never good enough; they were the opposite of complacent; and yet in a very real sense they were satisfied being unsatisfied. Each was chasing something of unparalleled importance, and it was the chase, as much as the capture, that was gratifying. Even if some of the things that they had to do were boring, or frustrating, or even painful, they would not dream of giving up. Their passion was enduring.
-Talent is not guarantee of grit.
-Grittier adults were more likely to get further in their formal schooling.
-Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is white another.
-Some of the students I expected to excel, because math came so easy to them, did worse than their classmates. On the other hand, some of my hardest workers were consistently my highest performers on tests and quizzes.
-Darwin: zeal and hard work are ultimately more important than intellectual ability.
-Focus on talent distracts us from something that is at least as important, and that is effort.
-High level of performance is, in fact, an accretion of mundane acts.
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Grit

Grit in psychology is a positive, non-cognitive trait based on an individual's passion for a particular long-term goal or end state, coupled with a powerful motivation to achieve their respective objective. This perseverance of effort promotes the overcoming of obstacles or challenges that lie within a gritty individual's path to accomplishment, and serves as a driving force in achievement realization. Commonly associated concepts within the field of psychology include "perseverance", "hardiness", "resilience", "ambition", "need for achievement" and "conscientiousness". These constructs can be conceptualized as individual differences related to the accomplishment of work rather than talent or ability. This distinction was brought into focus in 1907 when William James challenged the field to further investigate how certain individuals are capable of accessing richer trait reservoirs enabling them to accomplish more than the average person, but the construct dates back at least to Galton, and the ideals of persistence and tenacity have been understood as a virtue at least since Aristotle.

Green card warrior. By Nick Adams. Memorable quotes.

-Getting to America the right way is hard.
-No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a-comin.
-Why is the legal immigration process so tough , but illegal immigration so easy? Why does it take years to do it the right way but it is almost immediate to do it the wrong way?
-If you are an illegal and crossed the Rio Grande, you get free food stamps, health insurance, don't have to pay taxes and are spoiled by every benefit from state and federal government. If you are a Syrian coming to America, you're undocumented unvetted, and welcome.
-But if you obey the law, you get kicked in the teeth. Repeatedly. How is any of this fair? Or reasonable? Or in accordance with the Constitution or the American ethos?

Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance. Quotes II

-Somehow my aunt and uncle's children ended up with more pedestrian gifts than I had come to expect as a child. They did not define their family Christmas holiday by the dollar value of gifts their daughter accumulated.
-I don't know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush, or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better.

Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance. Quotes I

-There is nothing lower than the poor stealing from the poor.
-The Blanton men were full of vice.
-I was nine months old the first time Mamaw saw my mother put Pepsi in my bottle.
-The best way up for the hillbilly was out.
-Despite the setbacks, both of my grandparents had an almost religious faith in hard work and the American Dream.
-You can do anything you want to.
-Mamaw and Papaw may have failed Bev in her youth. But they spent the rest of their lives making up for it.
-When I came home and told Papaw about my heartbreak, he turned it into triumph. I learned multiplication and division before dinner.
-In other words, despite all of the environmental pressures from my neighborhood and community, I received a different message at home. And that just might have saved me.
-Mamaw had done everything in her power to be better than the circumstances of her birth.
-We learned to value loyalty, honor and toughness.
-You never start a fight; you always end the fight if someone else starts it.
-Sometimes you have to fight even when you are not defending yourself. Sometimes it's just the right thing to to.
-God helps those who help themselves.
-He never apologized with words.
-The measure of a man is how he treats the women in his family.
-Those three years with Mamaw saved me.
-We spend to pretend that we are upper-class.
-I never saw only the worst of what our community offered, and I believe that saved me.
-Having a job and learning a bit about the world helped clarify precisely what I wanted out of my own life.
-I found a couple of teachers that inspired me to love learning.
-She promised that if she saw me in the presence of any person on the banned list, she would run him over with her car.
-No pep talk or speech could show me how it felt to transition from seeking shelter to providing it.
-Leadership depended far more on earning the respect of your subordinates than on bossing them around.
-Surrounding me was another message: that I and the people like me were not good enough; that the reason Middletown produced zero Ivy League graduates was some genetic or character defect. I could not possibly see how destructive that mentality was until I escaped it.
-I loathed debt and the sense of limitation it imposed.
-The incredible optimism I felt about my own life contrasted starkly with the pessimism of so many of my neighbors.
-What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had from their own lives.
-The most expensive schools are paradoxically cheaper for low-income students.
-I stopped being ashamed: my parents' mistakes were not my fault.
-The wealthy and the powerful are not just wealthy and powerful; they follow a different set of norms and mores.
-Successful people are playing and entirely different game: they network.
-Social capital: networks of people and institutions.
-The old adage says that it is better to be lucky than good. Apparently having the right network is better than both.
-Life did not wait.
-The only way to take advantage of networking is to ask.
-Social capital is all around us. Those who tap into it prosper. Those who don't are running life's race with a major handicap.
-Not knowing things that many others do often has serious economic consequences.
-I realized then that I had a problem, that I must confront whatever it was that had, for generations, caused those in my family to hurt those whom they loved.
-Her marriage got even better, only after she realized that she did not have to be on guard all the time.
-Why do you fight with me like I am your enemy?
-I used words like weapons. That's what everyone around me did. I did it to survive. Disagreements were war, and you played to win the game. I did not unlearn these lessons overnight.
-The things I wanted most, a happy partner and a happy home, required constant mental focus.
-You have to stop making excuses and take responsibility.
-Mom deserves much of the blame. No person's childhood gives him or her a perpetual moral get out of jail free card.
-Upward mobility is never a clean-cut, and the world I left always finds a way to reel me back in.
-Mom instilled in me a lifelong love of education and learning.
-I think you have to have good role models around you, so you get to know different things. That exposure gives you something to dream for.
-They had a family member they could count on.
-Our high school ranked near the bottom of Ohio's schools, but that had little to do with the staff and much to do with the students.
-The real problem for so many of these kids is what happens at home.

Calendar Book 2017 August #8. Green card warrior by Nick Adams

Messages from the masters. By Brian Weiss. Quotes VIII

-Afterwards, you and your committee, which is comprised of the loving guides, masters, angels, and others who have helped to guide you over eons of time, plan your next life, so that you can rectify the wrongs you have done.
-To be truly happy requires an understanding of life and of death, and a loving, forgiving, spiritual nature. Introspection, meditation, loving service, kindness, and charity. These are some of the steps along the way. Practicing forgiveness of yourself and others, non-violence and good deeds, working to eliminate anger, fear, greed, self-centeredness, and false price, these are yet more steps.
-Although our lives travel along predetermined courses, fate is not responsible for our actions. And just as we must take complete responsibility for our negative and harmful behavior, so we need to take responsibility for our positive and loving behavior.
-We are not alone in the universe. Beyond our physical dimension, the unseen world appears to be populated by a myriad of spirits of varying abilities and progression.
-The more loving and wise we are, the more advanced we will be on the other side.
-What we call coincidences, are really God's fingerprints.

Messages from the masters. By Brian Weiss. Quotes VII

-We are always loved and always protected.
-The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything... doing unselfishly.
-Violence is much more than just inflicting physical injury on another. It can be very subtle. Separating into "us" and "them" is an act of violence. Focusing on the differences between people rather than our commonality inevitably leads to violence, sooner or later.
-We fear "the other". We blame them for our problems rather than looking within ourselves. We attempt to solve our problems by "fixing" them, often with violence.
-We are swimming upstream against the current of love when we separate others as different. Love tells us that we are all connected, that we are all equal, that we are all the same.
-This light is not some neuro-chemical  event occurring in an injured brain, but rather a wonderful glimpse into the world beyond.

Messages from the masters. By Brian Weiss. Quotes VI

-To be in physical state is abnormal. When you are in spiritual state, that is natural to you. When we are sent back, it's like being sent back to something we do not know. It will take us longer. In the spirit world you have to wait, and then you are renewed. There is a state of renewal. It's a dimension like the other dimensions. We are all spirits... some are in physical state and others are in a period of renewal. And others are guardians. But we all go there. We have been guardians too.
-To remember that we are souls, that we are immortal and always exist in a vast sea of energy, is the key to joy and happiness.
-What is the difference in this life if you are wealthy and I am not? Only the treasures of spirit can be retained. What is the difference if you are powerful or famous and I am not. Happiness has no roots in power or fame, only in love. What is the difference if you are more liked and respected by others than I am? Perhaps I am daring to tell and to live the truth, and the truth is rarely popular. Happiness comes from within, not from without, not from the reflection of what others think of you. Jealousy is poison to the soul.
-Never lose the courage to take risks. You are immortal You can never be hurt.
-We often come around again and again with the same people, even though our relationships may change. This is one way we learn here in the physical state.
-It is not how much we give, but how much love we put into the giving.
-Love dissolves fear.
-Live in the present, not the past or the future. The past is over; learn from it and let it go. The future is not yet here. Plan from it, but do not worry. Worry only wastes your time and energy.
-Paradise on earth is possible if we choose it.
-Our forgetfulness, our state of being unconscious is reversible.

Messages from the masters. By Brian Weiss. Quotes V

-You have a relationship with yourself as well as with others. And you have lived in many bodies and in many times. So ask you present self why it is so fearful. Why are you so afraid to take reasonable risks? Are you afraid of your reputation, afraid of what others think? These fears are conditioned from childhood or before. Ask yourself these questions: What's to lose? What's the worst that can happen? Am I content to live the rest of my life this way?
-Teach them to experience. Teach them to love and to help one another.
-Arrogance is merely another face of fear.
-Forgiving does not mean forgetting. It means understanding.
-You are always loved. You are always protected and you are never alone.
-Instead of worrying about specific outcomes and results, just do the right thing. Reach out unselfishly.
-Money is neutral. What we do with money is the important part.
-Love one another with all of your hearts and do not fear, do not hold back. For the more you give, the more returns to you.
-Understand and forgive. That is the task of love.
-All is love... All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.
-We are always reunited with our loved ones, either on this side or the other.
-It is extremely important to pay attention to the coincidences, the synchronicities, and the deja vu experiences in our lives because they often represent the convergence of our spiritual plan and the actual path we are traveling during our lifetime.
-As we let go of our fears, the obstacles to love disappear and love flows freely within and between and among us.

Calendar Book 2017 July #7. Hillbilly Elegy. By J. D. Vance

Messages from the masters. By Brian Weiss. Quotes IV

-The relationship is more important than that television, magazine or newspaper. Turn off the television. Respect the other person.
-Renew the relationship through loving actions.
-Soulful relationships bring true joy into our lives.
-Reach out with love and compassion to help others without concern for what you may gain.
-It is a sin to take away another's joy.
-Give positive verbal messages. Compliment from the heart. Do no communicate to harm or to win.
-Never act or speak from anger. Words have a lasting effect and power, and they are not easily forgotten.
-The only test in this great school we call humanity is whether we are learning to discharge anger and embrace love. Holding onto anger poisons our relationships. Continue to love, even if the other is angry, hurt, and fearful. Love is a constant; anger is transient.
-Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.
-Anger is rooted in judgment. We hold others to some standard that we have somehow fantasized, chosen, and applied to them. The may not even know about these standards but that doesn't matter to us. So often people are angry at us because we have not met their expectations.

Messages from the masters. By Brian Weiss. Quotes III

-We choose when we will come into our physical state and when we will leave. We know when we have accomplished what we were sent down here to accomplish... When you have had the time to rest and re-energize your soul, you are allowed to choose your re-entry back into the physical state.
-Not accidentally or coincidentally are we born into our families. We choose our circumstances and establish a plan for our lives before we are even conceived.
-There are reasons for everything. No coincidences exist on the path of destiny.
-Destiny and free will co-exist and interact all the time. They are complementary, not contradictory.
-The soul appears to make a reservation for a particular physical body around the time of conception. No other soul can occupy that body. The union of soul and body is not completed, however until the moment of birth. Before this time, the soul of the unborn child can be both in and out of the body.
-There are seven planes... seven through which we must pass before we are returned. One of them is the plane of transition. There you wait. In that plane it is determined what you will take back with you into the next life.
-Sometimes a soul learns to love by becoming what it most despised.
-A hard life is not a punishment, but rather an opportunity.
-We change races, religions, sex, and economic advantage because we must learn from all sides.
-Relationships are a living laboratory.
-You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your spiritual progress.
-Happiness comes from within. Never give your power to anyone else.
-It is the job of those ahead to reach back, with compassion and with love, to help those behind.
-Love yourself.
-Learn to see with your heart, not your eyes.
-When you look into the eyes of another, any other, and you see you own soul looking back at you, then you will know you have reached another level of consciousness.

Messages from the masters. By Brian Weiss. Quotes II

-Our lives are not the result of random actions and events. Lifetimes are wisely and carefully scripted to enhance our learning and evolution.
-We choose our parents, who usually are souls with whom we have interacted in prior lifetimes.
-We review the lives we have just left, learn our lessons, and plan for our next life. Learning doesn't end with the death of the body.
-One important level is the learning stage, where we review our lives. We re-experience every encounter, every relationship. We feel the emotions of the people whom we have helped or hurt, loved and hated, or affected positively or negatively. We feel their emotions very deeply.
-Usually we reincarnate in different relationships. We come around again and again with our loved ones.
-We are always being reunited. We always come back together, again and again.
-When you look at another person, in relationship, in therapy, in life, see their soul through lifetimes and eons of time. Not just the transitory physical being across from you. You too are such a soul.
-We are eternal souls. We never really die.
-A loved relative or friend or a spiritual being is often waiting at the light to greet the out of body traveler and to impart important information or messages.
-Through understanding your past lessons and debts, you will remember your goals for the current life.
-We are beyond life and death, beyond space and beyond time. We are all immortal, and we exist throughout eternity.