You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.
Interpretation
Life is fleeting, so make the most of it while you can.
This quote emphasizes the importance of living life to its fullest, recognizing that we only have one chance to experience it. By 'playing your cards right,' it suggests that making wise choices and seizing opportunities can lead to a fulfilling life, making that single life experience meaningful and worthwhile.
In practice
In a motivational speech about making the most of every day.
With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
It's only words... unless they're true.
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he meant was, you have to plan every operation You cannot ever be casual You have to realize that any operation is a potential fatality.
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