Coach K
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
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The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
This too, shall pass.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
There's no crying in baseball !
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Change comes from within.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.