“Failure is trading what you really want for what you want right now.”
To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field. It was about the way I played the game.
Jerry Rice, voted best NFL player ever
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, whatever increases the authority of the body over the mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may seem in itself.
Susanna Wesley
rare breed, girl who reads that is, where can I find one?
(In Response to Charles Warnke’s You Should Date An Illiterate Girl.)
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a…
The drive to keep working, with a laser-like intensity, on something even after you’ve lost immediate interest. Tenacity. A grating thirst to get it done. These are the precursors of accomplishment.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God.
(Source: paulocoelhoblog.com)
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: Find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability that you have.
John D. Rockefeller
The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
G.K. Chesterton
If you are lucky enough to have talent, or virtue, or wealth, or power, you ought to cultivate it & treat it as an opportunity to help the world become better, and not to mistake it for an opportunity to amuse yourself.
reddit.com (via afscott)
Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a half minutes per mile]. So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.” I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a helluva lot older than you are, and I can’t do five.” He said, “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it.” I said “Okay, hell, I’ll go for it.” So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I’m okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce if I run any more,” —and we’re still running-“if I run any more I’m liable to have a heart attack and die.” He said, “Then die.” It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, “Why did you say that?” He said, “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.
-From The Art of Expressing the Human Body
By Bruce Lee, John Little
- my friend posted this from Holstee. Awesome?
Our delusion
When we received criticism, our ego kicks into overdrive and Marshall Goldsmith explain how:
First, we think that the other party is confused and that they are misinformed and had no idea what they are talking about.
Second, we may then realised the other party may have accurate information so we go into denial mode. We rationalised that we won’t be so successful if what they say are true.
Finally, when all else fails, we will attack the other party. Something along the line: “Who are you to tell me what to do?” / “Why am I listening to a loser like you?”
Prayer
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve, I was made weak, that I might humbly obey. I asked for health, that I might do greater things, I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for riches, that I might be happy, I was given poverty, that I might be wise. I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men, I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life, I was given life, that I might enjoy all things. I got nothing I asked for, but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am among all men, most richly blessed.
(Source: larrycheng.com)
Life and How to survive it
I miss this piece. Hilarious yet inspiring.
Adrian Tan is a litigation lawyer at one of Singapore’s leading law firms. Outside the courtroom, he is known for a variety of funny things, including The Teenage Textbook, which he wrote in the late 1980s. The book became a cult classic among students of that generation and was adapted into a film 10 years later.
Adrian was the guest-of-honour at an NTU convocation ceremony in year 2008, and this is Adrian’s speech to the graduating class of 2008:
Life and How to Survive It
I must say thank you to the faculty and staff of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for inviting me to give your convocation address. It’s a wonderful honour and a privilege for me to speak here for ten minutes without fear of contradiction, defamation or retaliation. I say this as a Singaporean and more so as a husband.
My wife is a wonderful person and perfect in every way except one. She is the editor of a magazine. She corrects people for a living. She has honed her expert skills over a quarter of a century, mostly by practising at home during conversations between her and me.
On the other hand, I am a litigator. Essentially, I spend my day telling people how wrong they are. I make my living being disagreeable.
Nevertheless, there is perfect harmony in our matrimonial home. That is because when an editor and a litigator have an argument, the one who triumphs is always the wife.
And so I want to start by giving one piece of advice to the men: when you’ve already won her heart, you don’t need to win every argument.
Marriage is considered one milestone of life. Some of you may already be married. Some of you may never be married. Some of you will be married. Some of you will enjoy the experience so much, you will be married many, many times. Good for you.
The next big milestone in your life is today: your graduation. The end of education. You’re done learning.
(Source: mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com)
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John Updike
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Reflections.
“What one boasts of and say of and know of is of worthlessness when no action is done.
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