"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
-John Wooden
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"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
-John Wooden
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"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
-John Wooden
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"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day."
-John Wooden
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"I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession."
-John Wooden
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"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."
-John Wooden
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"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
-Robert Frost
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"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
-Bill Gates
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"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
-Flannery O'Connor
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"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
-Hector Berlioz
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"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
-Denis Waitley
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
-Thomas Carlyle
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