A Quote by John Wooden

You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

John Wooden

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John Wooden
American - Coach
October 14, 1910 - June 4, 2010

Always do your best because a pat on the back is real close to a kick in the pants.

Doug Flutie

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There's no time in the NFL, especially as a specialist, to pat yourself on the back. It's a week-to-week, game-to-game, kick-to-kick kind of job.

Stephen Gostkowski

I think through humor you can get a point across better than through just a dramatic narrative.

Dominique Crenn

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

Gary Lineker

A pat on the back is six inches away from a kick up the ass.

Geri Halliwell

Just remember that a pat on the back is only 18 inches from a kick in the behind.

Rex W. Tillerson

Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.

Hattie McDaniel

It's easy to get bogged down in all the negativity that when you see people smile and pat you on the back and say, 'We're going to get through this,' it means a lot.

Michael Waltrip

You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

Patrick Warburton

People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.

James Taylor

Hearing other peoples' interpretations of your lyrics, to me, is just a total kick in the pants. Half the time, they're better.

Mike Patton

The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.