Kevin Johnson quotes

Kevin Johnson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.”
-- Kevin Johnson

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“From a little boat, to a big boat, to a helicopter, to an airplane.”
-- Kevin Johnson

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“Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.”
“The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
“Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.19, Transaction Publishers
“He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.”
“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.”
“You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.”
“It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.”
“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”
“Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.”
“The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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