Education Quotes by Kenny Smith

8 Education quotes by Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith’s brief reflections on education draw parallels between athletic training and academic effort. In eight succinct observations, he highlights teamwork, practice, and perseverance as keys to success.

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The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and…

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One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques…

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I want to study law.

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I think that for me, as a UNC graduate, I value my education - I think everyone who's gone to that university…

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American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is…

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What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric…

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Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation…

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So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and…

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When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

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If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world.

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In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to…

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How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than…

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There are a lot more famous fathers out there than me with daughters who wouldn't mind singing careers... but the talent and the work…

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Games like 'Call of Duty' and 'NBA Baller Beats' have so much to them. I was more of the 'Pac-Man' generation where we were…

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The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

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I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career.

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I'm always the neutral guy, man. I'm able to bring people together.

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People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really…

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There's hasn't been a day in my life since I was 9 years old that I haven't touched a basketball or done something connected…

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You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people.

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NCAA is looking at how to do a better job enforcing their rules instead of looking at why the predatorial environment is created. There's…

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