Everyday Résumé.
One second decisions.
Act like your life is a movie & what you’re doing is a scene.
Mr. Serotonin Man, lend me a gram. You call yourself a friend?
I’ve been crazy, couldn’t you tell? Threw stones at the stars but the whole sky fell. - Gregory Alan Isakov
Cutting through the avenues. I’d always find my way to you. Beside the hook, the hammer lies. - Gregory Alan Isakov
Everywhere I went, led me where I didn’t wanna be. - Paul Simon
Discipline, doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it.
We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit.
Enjoy every sandwich - Warren Zevon
Putting time to sharpen the axe and then cutting the tree is better than trying to cut a tree with a blunt axe
Life is a puzzle. So best to get your straight pieces in place first. Get control of what you can, then be spontaneous.
Does your environment affect your thinking or is it the opposite?
It’s not magic.
Why not you?
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
If you know what you’re worth, then go and get what you’re worth.
I can’t be sure I’m getting anywhere when I’m working hard, but I can be sure I’m getting nowhere when I’m not, and it feels awful.
What does your book look like?
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong - (Great Expectations)
My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him! - (David Copperfield)
John is a man of focus, commitment, and sheer will.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. - (A Tale of Two Cities)
We’re not friends, not enemies. Just strangers with memories.
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
Master the boring fundamentals
Tiny changes, remarkable results
How big would you dream if you knew you couldn’t fail?
Take one step in the right direction, and you’re halfway there to make your dreams come true.
Everything is figureoutable
Don’t run in the face of rejection, sit through and experience it.
Be so good that they can’t ignore you.
Instead of speculating what may make you great, get out there and start doing. Do not look for perfection or even greatness, but instead signs of “good” and start making tangible progress.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ― Epicurus
The greats do the things even if they don’t want to.
How I feel has no effect on how I live my life.
You can just step up and fix anything in your life
Here, I’ll forgive my thoughts now. - Novo Amor
You gotta have a huge drive that you’re doing something big. - Steve Woz
The magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding.