If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
Interpretation
Learning a new language requires accepting imperfection to communicate effectively.
In this quote, Yao Ming emphasizes the importance of allowing oneself to make mistakes when learning a new language. The fear of making errors can inhibit progress and prevent meaningful communication; thus, embracing imperfection is crucial for language acquisition and fluency.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a language class to encourage students to speak without fear.
Every sound in the gym is so fantastic. The screams of the fans, the whistle of the ref, the teammates calling to each other, the sounds of the ball touching the wooden floor, the sneakers touching the floor, and the sounds of the fight, the muscle and the sweat. Oh, and the last one-when the ball goes through the net. Don't laugh at my sensitivity and romanticism - those sounds really attract me.
When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
When the buying stops, the killing can too.
I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.
What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. And when families flourish, communities and nations do as well.
The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach. Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach.
You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
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