Another year almost wrapped up, which means another year of reflection and perspective. I try to stay inspired as much as I can on a weekly basis and one of the ways I do this is by logging any good quote I hear throughout the year. Whether the quote comes from a book I’m reading, a podcast I’m listening too or just a good conversation with a friend or loved one, I log it and reflect on it from time to time. Below is my quote “bank” from 2019 … Enjoy!
“The most exquisite paradox: as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. … As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.” – Ram Dass
“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
—Mario Andretti, Formula One driver”
“Real life experience is instructive but the tuition is high” – From the book “Chaos Monkeys”
“A mans worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions”. – Marcus Aurelius
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.” – Galeleio
“We only live once … Wrong, we only die once, we live everyday”. – Charlie Brown Quote
“You don’t get what you deserve in this life you get what you fight for”. – Quote from Netflix Show “Working Moms”
Excerpt from an article I read on mental toughness:
- Never confuse who you are with what you do
- Master your inner dialogue – What you say to yourself matters more than what the entire world together says about you.
- Learn to live in the moment – his anchor was his breath. This too shall pass.
- Fortify You’re Village then build a moat – Find those handful of people who will support you no matter what, invest your time and energy in strengthening those relationships.
- Be prepared, be prepared, be prepared- As someone once said, never let a good crisis go to waste. Often, the biggest opportunities for personal and professional growth are found in times of upheaval and uncertainty.
“All it takes is just one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day” – Alan Moore
“Resilence is the interpretive frameworks that you deploy when things don’t go your way”. – Jason Silva
“Anxiety is just temporal dislocation” – Jason Silva
“What can we do now that we couldn’t do 6 months ago”? – Abe
“I was just existing for so long. Now I’m living”. – Abe
“I’m really into this life thing”. – Wozniak
“Have a blessed day full of insights and awareness” – Abe
“No limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets credit”. – Ronald Regan
“Creative genius often exists at the edge of insanity”. – Jason Silva
“Keeping the truth, up front in your daily consciousness” – Unknown
“It’s more important to love God than to know God”. – Quote from Pints with Aquinas
“In order to solve this hard problem, we have the start with the truth” – Jim Syring (Kicking off an Executive Leadership Meeting at USAA)
“Biggest Lie … Achievement is more important than fulfillment. Your brain wasn’t designed to make you happy, it was designed to make you survive”. – Tony Robbins
“Don’t wish it was easier, make yourself better” – Unknown
“Don’t become a wandering generalist … be a meaningful specific”. – Seth Godin
“The dream of the planet is a lie” – The Four Agreements (Book I read)
The Four Agreements :
- Be Impeccable with Your Word
- Don’t take anything personal
- Don’t make assumptions
- Always do your best
“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one”. – Confucius
“A recognition of the finite nature of life is a blessing, as it focuses you on loving, forgiving, and pursuing.” – Scott Galloway
“It’s not about intensity, it’s about consistency” – Simon Simanek
“There are people that see what they want and people who see what stands in the way”. – Simon Simek … See the bagel.
“The highest performing people in the world are the ones who when they have nothing left to give they turn by their side and help the person standing next to them”. – Simon Simek
“While you can have virtually anything you want, you can’t have everything you want.” – Ray Dalio
“Internal locus of control, the power of reflectiveness, understand how to manage pain to produce progress”. – Unknown
“I now realize that nature optimizes for the whole, not for the individual, but most people judge good and bad based only on how it affects them.”-
Ray Dalio
“Honor and revere the gods, treat human beings as they deserve, be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.” – Marcus Aurelius
“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it, and what you do simply serves as the proof that of what you believe” – Simon Simek
“The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe” – Simon Simek
There are leaders and then there are those that lead. Leaders hold a position of authority, power, etc. Those that lead, inspire us – Simon Simek”
“Grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in and day out. Not just for the week. Not just for the month. But for years. Working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint”. – Angela Duckworth
“To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God—saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don’t acknowledge it—this life lived with simplicity, humility, cheerfulness—he doesn’t resent them for it, and isn’t deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life.” – Marcus Aurelius
“The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception”. – Marcus Aurelius
There were other times I thought I was mainlining the secret truth for the universe. – True Detective (Matthew McConaguey)
“Is a life in which nothing is worth dying for can possibly be worth living.” – stoic
“The future is already here it’s just not very evenly distributed” – Tim Ferris
“We all do our duty when there’s no cost to it” – Unknown
“We only make peace with our enemies that’s why it’s called making peace” – Unknown
“If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy.” – Seneca
“If all we needed was energy rather than entropy, we would head for the heat of the Sahara rather than toward our next meal” – Carlo Rovelli
“Entropy, not energy that keeps stones on the ground and the world turning” – Carlo Rovelli
“Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes” – Oscar Wilde
“Take in the world with a level of intensity” – Unknown
“Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick, a shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow” – Game of Thrones
“It’s all code. If you listen closely you can hear the numbers” – Colin Ritman (Bandersnatch)
“Entropy is nothing other than the number of microscopic states that our blurred vision of the world fail to distinguish.” – Carlo Rovelli
“The present of the universe is meaningless” – Carlo Rovelli
“Time is nothing but the registering of movement” – Aristotle
“There is a time that passes even when nothing changes” – Newton
“Hard to put a leash on a dog once you have put a crown on his head” – Game of Thrones
“Kill the boy and let the man be born”. – Game of Thrones
“We tend to fight wars the same way we fought the last war. We are prisoners of our own experience” – Unknown
“If you can’t measure what’s important then you measure what you can” – on Vietnam body count metric – Netflix Series (Vietnam War)
“It is the fleeting illusion of permanence that is the origin of all suffering” – Carlo Rovelli
“No matter where you go, there you are.” – Mark Manson
“that’s what you get for giving a fuck, when it wasn’t your turn to give a fuck” – Mark Manson
“The dog shit caked at the bottom of the social totem pole” – Mark Manson
“The proverbial vegetables to our mental diet of junk food” – Mark Manson
“Problems never stop; they merely get exchanged and/or upgraded”. – Mark Manson
“If you feel crappy it is because your brain is telling you that there’s a problem that’s unaddressed or unresolved”. – Mark Manson
“What pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for?” – Mark Manson
“The joy is in the climb itself” – Mark Manson
“The true measure of self-worth is not how a person feels about her positive experiences, but rather how she feels about her negative experiences” – Mark Manson
“Dissolving one’s ego into an expansive nothingness – achieving the enlightened state of nirvana – is seen as a trial run of letting oneself cross to the other side” – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*#@k”
“The veneer of civilization is very thin” – Vietnam Netflix Series
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