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Nothing’s ever perfect but you’re perfect to me (uh huh)…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *TH, LS, BM, PB, MM* The Warm-Up: “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” ~James Baldwin The Core: “Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.” ~Lord Acton “Trailblazers by definition don’t chase hype.” ~Anthony Pompliano “We don’t get results from our wish list. We get results from our work flow…” ~Pastor Steven Furtick “Having a spirited debate with smart people is so fantastic. Intellectual sparring is lightning in the veins.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner “There are two requirements for success in Wall Street: one, you have to think correctly, and secondly, you have to think independently.’” ~Benjamin Graham “If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.” ~Montesquieu “LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal are the greatest players to ever play for the Heat but Dwayne Wade and Jimmy Butler are the greatest Miami Heat players ever. If you don’t understand this, I cant explain it to you.” ~@Alf954 “Gotta build relationships so you can see good deals. Gotta build knowledge so you know what a good deal looks like. Gotta line up capital sources. Gotta be really good at all three. That’s real estate.” ~@realEstateTrent “Bringing a light to the streets, know what they missin’ / Time is ticking, uh / God on my side and I’m taking these shots like I can not miss (Woo) / Surrendered to Christ, gave Him my life, He covered the bid (Covered the bid)…” ~YB, Fire Emoji “The marriage of academia and practice has been the biggest cheat code in my career because it unlocked an unequivocal truth: if you want to get people to move, there is no vehicle more powerful or more influential than culture – full stop.” ~Marcus Collins, For The Culture “Most everything within and around you is trying to have a good relationship with you. Your body is actively working in your favor. Your environments are actively vibrating higher. Life ascends itself. The key is to move with that motion & not away from it.” ~@withlovesole “Say what you want / I don’t care where it goes / If I’m gonna love you completely / We gotta let it all show…/ Who knows you better / Who could love you any more / You can trust me completely / I’m just asking for you to be yourself / Oh, you can be yourself…” ~Wilder Woods, Be Yourself “Anais Nin is famously quoted as saying, ‘We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.’ That is, the truth is not as objective as we would like to believe. The truth is culturally mediated and socially negotiated and constructed based on our communal view of reality—our beliefs.” ~Marcus Collins, For The Culture “As the cultural scholar Douglas Holt put it, ‘Culture side-steps conventional value propositions, functional or category befits, and mind-share marketing.’ It moves beyond a brand having the sharpest razor, the fastest car, or the longest-lasting battery. Culture supersedes all these product differentiators because it does not revolve around what the product is. Culture focuses on who we are.” ~Marcus Collins, For The Culture “All of us are affected by lies. They form in us as a result of things we were told, things that happened to us, pains we have suffered, the culture we live in, our own sin, and Satan’s dirty work. These lies prevent us from experiencing the health, freedom, and maturity that is our inheritance in Christ, and they cant be ignored any more than a crumbling foundation can be ignored. They must be identified, and then we must reconstruct the foundation of our lives upon the truth by the renewing of the mind.” ~Rob Reimer “What can you say about the guy? He’s just incredible, all-around player. Great leader, great toughness. Mental toughness, physical toughness, ability to think on his feet, ability to lead, ability to connect with people, bring the best out of people. That’s what makes him special. And it’s play after play.” ~Tom Thibodeau, on Jalen Brunson after Brunson’s 38-point, nine-rebound, seven-assist performance in a must-win 112-103 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals Wednesday night. Last Set: “Don’t let what hasn’t come to fruition yet poison the goodness you have growing in your garden already. Keep watering yourself with cups of patience, your season is coming…Darling, they will look for you in other people, but only find all the reasons why they should have never taken you for granted in the first place. That is not your problem though, spaces that appreciate your light are awaiting your arrival.” ~Billy Chapata Food For Thought: “Most people live in almost total darkness…people, millions of people whom you will never see, who don’t know you, never will know you, people who may try to kill you in the morning, live in a darkness which...if you have that funny terrible thing which every artist can recognize and no artist can define...you are responsible to those people to lighten, and it does not matter what happens to you. You are being used in the way a crab is useful, the way sand certainly has some function. It is impersonal. This force which you didn’t ask for, and this destiny which you must accept, is also your responsibility. And if you survive it, if you don’t cheat, if you don’t lie, it is not only, you know, your glory, your achievement, it is almost our only hope... Because only an artist can tell, and only artists have told since we have heard of man, what it is like for anyone who gets to this planet to survive it. What it is like to die, or to have somebody die; what it is like to be glad... The trouble is that although the artist can do it, the price that he has to pay himself and that you, the audience, must also pay, is a willingness to give up everything, to realize that although you spent twenty-seven years acquiring this house, this furniture, this position, although you spent forty years raising this child, these children, nothing, none of it belongs to you. You can only have it by letting it go. You can only take if you are prepared to give... It is a total risk of everything, of you and who you think you are, who you think you’d like to be, where you think you’d like to go...everything, and this forever, forever.” ~James Baldwin (@_nitch)
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