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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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
There is time for everything.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
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.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
You had me at "hello".
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
A simple I love you means more than money.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
Only the educated are free.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
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.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
Actions speak louder than words.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Be all you can be.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Hope springs eternal.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Act or accept.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
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.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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.
The unexamined life is not worth living.