John Calipari Quotes

You get in trouble, you have to evaluate: Is it worth getting into trouble again? It's a lot easier to make that decision when you have a career at stake.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

We should not be making near-term decisions with long-term consequences without robustly debating these questions and fully considering the substantial and unpredictable risks of these actions.

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

I try to look at problems very clearly and think, 'How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?'

When you make a stance, sometimes there are consequences.

You really don't throw a ministerial job away lightly.

Always find different ways to accomplish the mission. Then run a counter-analysis and list the advantages and disadvantages. When you have done that, you are ready to make a decision.

Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?

I just want to be really careful with decisions I make. When you make a decision about your career, it changes your life in a really big way.

Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families in terms of the grief they may suffer, as well as contemplate the legal action that might follow on their return, if they were to return.

Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.

The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.

Anything that I wanted to do in my career that I wanted to do always worked out. The stuff I got talked into always failed. All the stuff I was talked into, by brilliant managers, because it always came down to, "Know how much money you'll make?" And then it would just fail.

If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.

Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.

No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.