A.A. Allen Quotes

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you're trying to go.

I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.

I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.

I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go

The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

I'm not perfect. But I am trying every day to concentrate on being better.

A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot

Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.

If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win.

I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

Just learn from your mistakes..and for give yourself..and better yourself:)

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

I don’t even have money for a cheeseburger!

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

We favor putting Congress on a commission basis. Pay them for results. If they do a good job and the country prospers, they get 10% of the extra take.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.