I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that making personal plans may often lead to unexpected outcomes, emphasizing the unpredictability of life.
Vin Scully's quote reflects on the notion that while humans may create elaborate plans for their lives, they are ultimately subject to the whims of fate or a higher power. This highlights the importance of humility in the face of uncertainty and the idea that life can take us in directions we did not foresee, reminding us not to take ourselves too seriously when we make our plans.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing change and uncertainty.
The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happenedβ¦
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall.
Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.
Meditation is the only way to overcome fear. There is no other way. Why does meditation help us overcome fear? In meditation we identify ourselves with the vast, with the Absolute. When we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do not feel that particular person or thing is a part of us. When we have established conscious oneness with the Absolute, with the Infinite Vast, the everything there is part of us. And how can we be afraid of ourselves?
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