Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
JIM VALVANO
JIM VALVANO
Jim Valvano on death
Jim Valvano49 quotes“Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.”
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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano I’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you’re ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano But try if you can to support, whether it’s AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
Mitch AlbomMitch Albom To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Things aren’t always as they seem – Jesus had to die to rise from the grave.
Marine AshnalikyanMarine Ashnalikyan It’s funny how most people love the dead, once you’re dead your made for life.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
Martha GrahamMartha Graham He lives as if death will never come to him, but he dies as if he had never been born.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur I thought I was fast but it turns out I’m dead.
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