Quote of the Day - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”
“There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who embrace their insanity and allow it to develop into genius and those who reject their insanity for normalcy.”
“When we fear things I think that we wish for them…Every fear hides a wish.”
“Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.”
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do.”
“There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.”
“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”
“Understand that everything is neutral, that nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it.”
“The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else…They let it happen, let it go. They couldn’t care less about the results.”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“What vulnerabilities do we have and what can we do to minimize them, to get around them, to survive them - and to give ourselves a better chance to win..”
“In mastering performance, we master ourselves and, in so doing, become more that who we are. What greater calling can there be?”
“Even the best fishermen will come home empty handed if they dip their lines into unstocked ponds.”
“The reason so many struggle with insecurity, is because they compare their “behind the scenes” with everyone else’s highlight reel.”
“Edges of leaves, contours of clouds, hills and plains - there are very few straight lines in nature. Nature is jagged and rough, bent and twisted. She may not be neat, but she IS real. Real like life lived.”
“Wake up every morning and tell yourself that you’re a badass motherfucker from hell and that no one can fuck with you and then don’t let anybody fuck with you.”
“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”