Tom Larson
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Love is perfect kindness
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
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.
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.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Here's looking at you, kid.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
I see dead people.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
You are what you think about all day long.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
I saw and loved.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.