Stan Smith Quotes

• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

  Stan Smith

  Soccer, Sports, Confidence

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• A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

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  Taken, Player, Thinking

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• Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

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  Success, Softball, Sports

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• When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

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  Goal, Focus, Tennis

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• Son, feelings are what women have. They come from their ovaries.

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  Son, Feelings, Ovaries

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• In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.

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  Real, White, Numbers

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• Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.

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  Laughter, Gay, Pox

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• If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

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  Drawing, Finishing, Should

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• Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!

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  Country, Trying, Hey

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• God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.

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  Kids, Media, White

  "Rapture's Delight". American Dad! TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.

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  Negatives Make, Play, Drawing

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• Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.

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  Men, Caves, Gestures

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• Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.

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  Eye, Light, Half

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• Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

  Stan Smith

  Ideas, Lines, Description

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