Steve Garvey (Steven Patrick Garvey) Quotes
You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
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Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
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If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.
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There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.
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The big talent is persistence.
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We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.
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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
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I understand that mutual dissatisfaction is a factor in their collaboration. I imagine it isn’t a far step from mutual goals to mutual respect, and from there to love.
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I do think it's possible to change people's minds - it's one of my goals with my music.
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Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.
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The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
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You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.
