Jim Valvano on activity
Jim Valvano49 quotes“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.”
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Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano We have a very intelligent team. I’ve had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you’re going to have a closed practice and eight guys don’t show up.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano All really successful coaches have a system.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Now I’m fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how’s your day, and nothing is changed for me.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left, and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people, too.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Never give up, never ever give up.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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And that is how time heals, not by erasing but by blurring all the memories.
VesmirVesmir Let me follow my dream. Let me follow my queen.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander Be kind to yourself, the way you would be to someone you love.
Courtney PeppernellCourtney Peppernell We need to surrender ourselves to the water before we can climb the spiral ladder.
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn You gave me the courage to rise but my darling robin why did you fly leaving me behind these four walls all alone?
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett Giving up your dreams is easy, but ask yourself is it really easy to live without dreams?
Sania AbbasSania Abbas It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us. Sort of like how I say ‘funny’ – but I actually mean sad.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki You can’t keep living backwards – Reminiscing on what was, And terrified to pursue What could be.
J.S BrownJ.S Brown
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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Japan will calmly proceed with its activities in line with international law.
Shinzo AbeShinzo Abe Activity without purpose is the drain of your life.
Tony RobbinsTony Robbins What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
Rowan AtkinsonRowan Atkinson One who fears failure limits his activities.
Henry FordHenry Ford For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.
Audrey HepburnAudrey Hepburn
