If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
JIM VALVANOTake time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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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.
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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.
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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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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.
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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.
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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.
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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.
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Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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