Lou Holtz Quotes

It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

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• Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Water
  • Nothing
  • Flexible

• It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Growth
  • Learn
  • Impossible

• There's more to life than physical and material.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • More
  • Material

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Perfect
  • Him

• I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Healthy

• I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Soul

• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Politics

• I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • God
  • Movie
  • Acting

• Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Life
  • World
  • Long

• I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Faith
  • Admitted

• All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Admire
  • Guess

• Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Poet
  • Isolation

• I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Book
  • Help
  • Self

• When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Decision

• No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

  

  Mary Matalin
  • Time
  • Done

• Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Sleep

• Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

  

  William Shatner
  • Should

• Detroit was really fun, FYI, in case anybody wants to go to Detroit. I love it. I did.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Wants

• It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Done
  • Effort
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