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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Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Bring out the gimp.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
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.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Live with passion !
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
The heart that loves is always young.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
There are simply too many notes.
Success is predictable.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
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.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
The book you don't read cant help.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Love is letting go of fear.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
You betcha !
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.