Crash Davis
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
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To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
They can because they think they can.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Never say more than is necessary.
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''.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
You create your reality.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Non !
I want to be alone.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
May you live all the days of your life.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
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.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Attica ! Attica !
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Open the pod bay doors,
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.