Kathleen Troia McFarland Quotes

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

It sounds good to say, 'We're going to do this,' on C-SPAN, but try to do that in real life, and it's not going to work.

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

If you are a U. S. senator, you can give an ideological response to a serious problem and probably never be held accountable for it. Whereas the [state] governors are dealing with the real world—they have to run things, to make them work.

Don't try to shift your responsibilities on to somebody else.

On Pragmatism: It's all very well in theory but it doesn't work in practice

That's what I think most players want to be remembered as, being a good competitor. Not being a guy who makes excuses. There are a lot of guys who make an excuse before the game why they're not going to win. And those guys are losers.

Difficulty comes not only because of your mistakes, but once you try to make an excuse or accuse someone else, your mind stops thinking.

When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'