Stan Smith (Stanley Roger Smith) Quotes
When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
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I'm always on the court with my dad.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
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...it's the same with business. If you focus on the goal and not the process, you inevitably compromise. Businessmen who focus on profits wind up in the hole. For me, profit is what happens when you do everything else right.
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You never know what's going to happen, but our goal is to keep everything together. We have a lot to do trying to get ready for next year and continuing to add to our team and continuing to build something. I know we have the right kind of character and right kind of players to build around.
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I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.
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You can achieve almost any goal if you just do what other successful people have done to achieve the same goals before you.
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To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.
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How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!
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As an athlete and as a woman, I get my confidence from playing sports because it shifts your focus from what your body looks like to what your body can do for you. That's what we all should be doing. It shouldn't be about looking perfect.
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We are fighting corruption and all illegal activities and building a culture of transparency and ethical governance.
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The current market cost for a space flight, about a week in space and about six people have gone with the Russians so far to the International Space Station; it costs about $30 to $35 million. So, it's not for the faint of heart. But our own market studies that we've commissioned as well as some public market studies all indicate that there are somewhere around 20 or so individuals every year who have both the means and the interest to do this. So, the market is definitely out there.
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When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
