Vic Braden Quotes

#1. Who was blowing on the nape of my neck.

David Mitchell

#2. The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

Vic Braden

#3. What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.

Salman Khan

#4. I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.

Laura Lippman

#5. I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

Mary J. Blige

#6. My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play tennis. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren't as good.

Vic Braden

#7. Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Vic Braden

#8. To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#9. Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots.

Vic Braden

#10. Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

Erica Jong

#11. I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

Barry Zito

#12. If you're thinking something good about your players, say it; don't save it for later.

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#13. How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.

Robert Plant

#14. Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.

Vic Braden