Don Haskins Quotes

As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you -Jon Kabat-Zinn This is a motto for my book. To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow -Audrey Hepburn I put the above quote in my book. I finished my book with the thoughtful quote from Harvey Mackay. Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

Don't lie to me, son," said Haskins. "When you make a move that ain't called for and plumb necessary, cats will stop eating canned salmon when the tin is off! Loosen up, Jargan, and tell me what you want!

If people can be forced to engage in immoral actions, then “personal liberty” only exists to the extent the majority of people in society permit it to, which is to say that fundamental human rights don’t exist at all.

But if the goal is to help poor and minority kids succeed, then the answer is education, work, and marriage. That’s the “Success Sequence,” and it was written not by me, but by Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill at the Brookings Institution—a liberal think tank. They said: Graduate from high school, get a job, wait until you’re twenty-one to get married, and don’t have kids until after you’re married. If you do those things, your chance of being poor drops to 3 percent. That’s true no matter your race.