wanted to save this great quote for later:
the only thing you have to do is decide what you want to do. knowing how or the specifics of the goal is irrelevant, those aspects will unfold as you progress
Category: Quotes
Stumbled accross an amazing quote today, from Brandon Lee – Son of Bruce Lee:
Well, I would say this: when you move down the road towards mastery of the martial arts—and you know, you are constantly moving down that road—you end up coming up against these barriers inside yourself that will attempt to stop you from continuing to pursue the mastery of the martial arts. And these barriers are such things as when you come up against your own limitations, when you come up against the limitations of your will, your ability, your natural ability, your courage, how you deal with success—and failure as well, for that matter. And as you overcome each one of these barriers, you end up learning something about yourself. And sometimes, the things you learn about yourself can, to the individual, seem to convey a certain spiritual sense along with them.
…It’s funny, every time you come up against a true barrier to your progress, you are a child again. And it’s a very interesting experience to be reduced, once again, to the level of knowing nothing about what you’re doing. I think there’s a lot of room for learning and growth when that happens—if you face it head-on and don’t choose to say, “Ah, screw that! I’m going to do something else!”
We reduce ourselves at a certain point in our lives to kind of solely pursuing things that we already know how to do. You know, because you don’t want to have that experience of not knowing what you’re doing and being an amateur again. And I think that’s rather unfortunate. It’s so much more interesting and usually illuminating to put yourself in a situation where you don’t know what’s going to happen, than to do something again that you already know essentially what the outcome will be within three or four points either way
Writer George Bernard Shaw on living a life that burns bright:
“This is the true joy in life:
being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one;
being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
This quote from Ryan Serhant that I really liked is below. It is in reference to avoiding procrastination and doing things early. He Said:
Eventually, you’r going to have to face the music. So, decide when you’re going to turn the music on.
My Slightly altered version is:
Eventually, you’r going to have to face the music. So instead of delaying it, be the one who decides when the music turns on.
This is an excellent Quote I stumbled onto today and wanted to preserve it so I could easily come back and find it in the future:
If you don’t stack up to your own values, well — guess what? Everything prior to this moment is over, and everything after this moment is yet unwritten in your life’s great story, and you are the sole author and arbiter of what takes place in your garden. There are no excuses; there can be no bitterness towards an unjust world, because in your garden, there is only beauty and light and good, fertilized by the decisions you choose to make
When you’re frantically trying to get ahead of the pack, sometimes you forget to check in and see if the pack is actually headed in the right direction.
To be “bored” is to be free of distraction. I have configured servers, written code, built web pages and designed sites seen by hundreds of thousands of people. I am firmly in the camp that believes technology is generally bending the world in a positive direction. Yet it seems twitter foments neurosis, Facebook sadness, Google News a sense of foreboding. All social networking sites make me want to do it – whatever “it” may be – for the likes, the comments. I can’t help but feel that I am the worst version of myself, being performative on a very short, very depressing timeline. In the context of “boredom” as a goal, the antipode of the mindless connectivity, constant simulations, anger and dissatisfaction. I put “boredom” in quotes because the boredom I’m talking about fosters a heightened sense of presence. To be “bored” is to be free of distraction.