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Quote by Hakeem Olajuwon

“It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.”

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Hakeem Olajuwon, born on January 21, 1963, is a retired American professional basketball player renowned for his exceptional defensive and offensive skills. He is best known for his signature 'hook' shot during his NBA career. Olajuwon played for the Houston Rockets, where he won two NBA championships. more

“There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion”

Source: The Way to Love: Meditations for Life

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“The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.”

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