Coach K
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Never, never, never give up.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
There are simply too many notes.
Keep the Faith.
Don't fear, just live right.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Love is a many splendered thing.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
This is this.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
Here's Johnny !
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
All work is empty save when there is love.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
A simple I love you means more than money.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.