John Quotes

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.

Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

It is in the long run that the corporation lives.

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

I'm certainly going to support Al Gore because, on the whole, he's the more sensible figure and you vote not for the perfect but for the best. Coupled with that is a special situation.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win.

Study hard, practice hard, play ferociously.

A coach must sometimes see players with his heart, and hear them with his eyes.

There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't.

It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.

There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.

Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.

There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.

The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

Don't ask yourself what you did wrong; ask yourself what you did right.

Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.

Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.

The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.

The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.

You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind of winners fans, friends and others think they must be.

False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant we just go into the shade, let alone the darkness.

Ethics is for people with full bellies.

Use volleyball quotes to motivate your teammates to play hard.

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel.

Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing.

Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles.

Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.