Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.
You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.
It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself
A successful person never loses. . . they either win or learn!
If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out. . . I wont recruit them
The biggest thing is you cannot be afraid to miss the game-winning shot. It's not that you want to make it; it's that you're not afraid to miss it. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong. You have to have amnesia. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong.
Nothing is given to you. You're going to have to work for it.
There are other forms of community-based decision-making, not unlike, you know, our elected bodies, except that the intention here is to exclude pay-to-play players from determining how these decisions are made.
In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes of the film. There's a lot of Indigenous music that has not been heard widely and I love the idea of giving that music to the rest of the world.
Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.
It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.