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You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ↗

— John Wooden

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I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. ↗

— George Woodcock

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I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right. ↗

— George Woodcock

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I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that. ↗

— George Woodcock

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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. ↗

— John Wooden

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I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. ↗

— George Woodcock

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What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city. ↗

— George Woodcock

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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. ↗

— John Wooden

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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. ↗

— John Wooden

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. ↗

— John Wooden

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