“When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.”
The Mahābhāṣya
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Patañjali 44
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“You must be unselfish and accept the role that helps the team the most.”
Foreword to Winning Basketball : Techniques and Drills for Playing Better Offensive Basketball (2004) by Ralph L. Pim
Context: The game of basketball is one of the greatest teachers of life there is. It teaches you first and foremost to believe in yourself. You must develop physical and mental toughness in order to succeed because there's going to be many disappointments and setbacks along the way. You learn quickly that basketball is a team game. You must be unselfish and accept the role that helps the team the most. Basketball teaches you the importance of setting high standards and never accepting anything other than your best effort.
“When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.”
“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.”
Variant: Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
As quoted in Congressional Record https://web.archive.org/web/20160528155427/http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/18846, House, 44th Cong., 1st sess. (7 June 1876): p. 3,669
Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (1876)
“To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for.”
Paths of the Dead (2002)
Context: To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
Source: MARC her Words: An Interview with Henriette Avram, 1989, p.860