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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Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Love is the whole and more than all.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
If there is a will, there is a way.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
I light my candle from their torches.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
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.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
You become what you think about.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
Who so loves believes the impossible.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
I am your number one fan.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
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 build it, he will come.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.