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The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world, but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.
If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.
I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
There is no substitute for hard work.
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.
When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.
It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.
When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.
If you want to be noticed, dress the part.
The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.
Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.
The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.
Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.
I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.
The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when i was knocked down.
Rather than exist each day in some dull, boring habitual manner, move into action on a big idea. Everyone is on the brink of possibility. Your responsibility is to discover what that possibility is for you. Ideas can turn you on, they can wind you up. The right idea can and will add a new dimension to your life.
Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.
The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.
When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.
It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.
In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down
Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.
Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
Trials teach us what we are.
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.
Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
Hard work and an open mind - it's the only way to realize the potential that is inside every one of us.
I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy.
A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.
Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.
Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"
When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters.
Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.
Unfounded fears about your competence and abilities can cripple your unique talents and gifts, which are waiting to be released.
By deciding to succeed and actually trying to make your dreams come true, you are already successful. Your effort and continued dedication distinguish you from those who don't have the courage or stamina to really try.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.
I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
Today, financial capital is no longer the key asset. It is human capital. Success is no longer about economic competence as the main leverage. It is about emotional intelligence. It is no longer about controls. It is about collaboration. It is no longer about hierarchies. It is about leading through networks. It is no longer about aligning people through structures and spreadsheets. It is about aligning them through meaning and purpose. It is no longer about developing followers. It is about developing leaders.
Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.
James Gandolfini was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time... A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes. I remember telling him many times, 'You don't get it. You're like Mozart.'
The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.
Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.
Start working on whatever you hesitate Because there is an ending to every beginning. When you make it to the end, You will realize the hesitation was a waste of time.
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
The one that works the hardest comes out on top.
What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.
Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.
It's all about what they can get out of me.
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.
I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.
Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help.
When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.