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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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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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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Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. Most of the elite suffer from psychogenic amnesia. That means it's not organic amnesia, such as damage caused by brain injury. It's just a matter of psychology.
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Why do people always think they will be happier in the future, rather than embracing the thought for that hour, that day?
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When I was a kid and L.S.U. lost, you didn't read the papers until, like, Thursday.
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There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
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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.
