I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
Magic JohnsonRead
I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
Interpretation
Being at peace with oneself means prioritizing personal values over external opinions.
This quote by Magic Johnson emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and the strength that comes from within. It suggests that true peace comes when individuals refuse to let others control their actions or define their identity, encouraging autonomy and self-determination.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-worth.
I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It's a memory I will always cherish.
HIV changed my life, but it doesn't keep me from living.
I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure - like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.
My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.
If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.
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