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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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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They're playing at a very high level. They're still there as far as going after the record. A lot of things can go down in the second half of the season, but they are very good.
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Our goal is not to add crabs to the system so the crabbers can take them out.
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
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Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.
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If the investors themselves are not sophisticated, if they themselves are not putting a lot of their own money to work, if they themselves don't understand the continuum of capital and how different parts of the capital structures react differently, then they're basically worthless. They're not going to give great advice to these entrepreneurs who then need it. So that is unfortunately the cycle we're in and we have to break the cycle.
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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.
