I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
Jim ValvanoRead
To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Nothing great could be accomplished without enthusiasm,' to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have. The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality.
Interpretation
Embrace enthusiasm daily and work hard to achieve your dreams regardless of challenges.
This quote by Jim Valvano emphasizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude through laughter and thoughtful reflection. It highlights that enthusiasm is critical for achieving greatness and encourages persistence in the face of difficulties, reminding us that hard work is essential to turning dreams into reality.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire a group of students.
I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are.
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.
The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths.
All I had was wrestling. If I'm not good at the only thing I have in life, I've got to get better at it.
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