Don't whine. Don't complain. Don't make excuses.
Get out there and whatever you're doing do it to the best of your ability.
You can't control everything - But you can control how you show up.
Attitude. Effort. Ownership.
That's leadership.~ John Wooden, citing principles taught to him by his daddy
Ted: How you been?
Jamie: Uhh, awesome!
Ted: Yeah?
Jamie: The best. Pretty good. Okay.
Little depressed, yeah...
It's all shit, Ted.
~ from Ted Lasso
Dammit, Woman, you're my wife!
Your sole purpose is to make me do things I don't want to do!
~ Dan, on The Connors
Some people run away by packing their bags.
Others run away by staying in the same place too long.
~ Martha, Baby Reindeer, Episode 1
We are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well that we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect.
But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence.
I am not remotely interested in just being good.
~ Vince Lombardi
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.
The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.
"How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
One day you will bury your father and that day you will realize you lost the only man who wanted to see you do better than him.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
~ Thomas Paine
In English, we say:Can I be a child again?But in poetry, we say:Take me back to when laughter was endless,
and my dreams were bigger than my fears.
Nothing hurts a man like seeing himself getting older without any progress in his life.
~ found on the internet
You say you got a real solution.Well, you knowWe’d all love to see the plan.
Come on! What's scarier?
Trying something? Or not trying something?
~ Surfer dude, on Younger, to a reluctant beginner surfer
"Non tutte le ciambelle riescono col buco."
Not all donuts have a hole
meaning things don't always turn out as planned
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
You never interfere with your opponent when he is kicking his own ass.
~ Senator John Kennedy (no, not that John Kennedy)
They ask me: "Do you want to die on Mars?"
And I say, "Well, yes, but not on impact."
~ Elon Musk, who aspires to achieve space travel to Mars
"Victims of unsynchronized passion"
How Ernest Hemingway described his relationship with Marlene Dietrich
They say she had magical powers,That turned men melancholy.
Watch out for love
(Unless it is true...
and every part of you says yes,
including the toes)
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.
You can get happiness from Chipotle, Cialis, and Netflix.
All those things will bring you short-term happiness.
I think when we really talk about meaningful happiness, we talk about investments we make through the course of our lives and decisions in forgiveness we provide ourselves and other people, such that at the end of our life, we feel like we built a narrative of satisfaction.
I hate my life less and less every day
~ Scott Galloway’s common response when asked “How are you doing?”
The situation seems dark,
But if my military career has taught me anything, it's that
you can always give up!
~ Captain Isaac Higgentoot, on Ghosts
Sometimes, a man has to make a decision that will break his heart but give him peace for the rest of his life
Nothing kills a man faster than the weight of his own thoughts
"...For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time.
Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago..."
Nothing hurts a man like seeing himself getting older without seeing any progress in his life.
~ from the interwebs
Science Literacy empowers you to know when someone else is full of shit.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Signal versus Noise"
Learn to distinguish between performative acts and meaningful change.
Differentiate between what shocks people versus what affects people.
Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.
~ Jane Smiley
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
The father: "Really, can't you see that we are in a loveless marriage?"
Logan: "Everyone can see that you're in a loveless marriage! But you are OLD - that is just marriage at this point!"
~ Our Little Secret (a Hallmark Christmas-type show on Netflix)
“It is easier to turn an aquarium into fish soup, than to turn fish soup into an aquarium.”
Don't ever say that you don't have time to train. I’d rather you just tell me that you don't want to train, that you don't care about getting stronger, that you are satisfied at being inadequate as a human.
If you say that to me, what can I say? It’s so much easier that way: just say it and I will respect you more than saying that you don’t have time to train.
I don't want any messages saying 'I'm holding my position.' We're not holding a goddamned thing.We're advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding anything except the enemy's balls.
If we must have an enemy at the head of the government, let it be one whom we can oppose and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures.
You shouldn’t worry about criticism from somebody that you wouldn’t ask for advice.
~ Aaron Rodger
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
~ John Muir
A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later.
I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.
~ John Wayne