Kevin Durant Quotes

“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.”

“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To those of us who study history not merely as a warning reminder of man's follies and crimes, but also as an encouraging remembrance of generative souls, the past ceases to be a depressing chamber of horrors; it becomes a celestial city, a spacious country of the mind, wherein a thousand saints, statesmen, inventors, scientists, poets, artists, musicians, lovers, and philosophers still live and speak, teach and carve and sing.”

“We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation.”

“Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.”

“Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.”

“The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.”

“Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ”

“Education is the transmission of civilization.”

“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.”

“My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for the right reasons.”