Be true to the game, because the will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too. -Michael Jordan 521
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it traits its children. 238
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. 195
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. 273
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there – or failing to get there. 193
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. 235
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. 213
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’ 258
If you will pump long enough, hard enough, and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward. 249
