Larry Smith
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Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
If it is to be it is up to me.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Do or do not, there is no try.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
It's never too late.
My friends are my estate.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
I'm an excellent driver.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Help me ! Help me !
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I see dead people.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
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.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Live life to the fullest.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Action is the antidote to despair.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Our intentions create our reality.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.