Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

The Trial of Poppy Moon is free over Easter.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

Healing severe or chronic pain, I believe, includes transforming our relationship to the pain, and, ultimately, it is about transforming our relationship to who we are and to life.

Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.

Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.