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Alex Wheatle #ASmallAxe…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *TB, DM, SC, PB* The Warm-Up: “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~Howard Thurman The Core: “Patience teaches you stillness, waiting induces anxiety.” ~Malanda Jean Claude “Confidence doesn’t exist for a confident person. There is only doubt and the absence of doubt.” ~Thibaut “Most people don’t struggle to find the job they want; they struggle to understand what they want.” ~Orange Book “Remove your mask so your true self can be revealed. And forgive others for the masks they are wearing.” ~Maryam Hasnaa “Knowing the truth, seeing the truth, and telling the truth, are all different experiences.” ~Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights “If you aren’t honest about what you want and what you expect of others, you can’t be mad when they decide on your behalf.” ~Save Inigo “People are not accustomed to thinking hard and are often content to trust a plausible judgment that comes quickly to mind.” ~Daniel Kahneman “Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.” ~Ursual K. Le Guin “Society raised you to think that to be the 1% you have to earn a certain amount of money. I’m here to tell you that it’s actually your character and the money is a bonus.” ~Matt Gottesman “Being well-learned is about reading a lot. Being independent-thinking is about self-reflecting a lot. Being clear-minded is about giving your mind a lot of silence. Read, write, rest.” ~Orange Book “Instagram has ruined a whole generations expectation of relationships, work, and everything in between. It has made ‘perfect’ look normal. So now ‘good’ has become disposable.” ~Steven Bartlett “We often don’t question the amount of time we spend working for others. But we don’t spend enough time working for ourselves. Spend one hour working on something that unlocks your future.” ~Brandon Zhang “A denied expectation hurts more than a denied hope, while a fulfilled hope makes us happier than a fulfilled expectation. Hope’s got a higher return on happiness and less debit on denial, it’s just not as measurable.” ~Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights “Many people delay taking action because they hope to avoid suffering. They keep searching for a path that won’t involve tradeoffs. But some form of suffering is always inevitable. The process of taking action is the process of choosing your pain.” ~James Clear “You can’t fake it with the Universe. You can’t pretend to be kind, loving and positive; your vibration will suggest otherwise—and the Universe will match your frequency. Take care of yourself internally and your life will change externally, for the better.” ~Vex King Last Set: “If all that I would want to do, would be to sit and talk to you…would you listen?” ~Ann Ashford Food for Thought: “We have greatly overestimated the practical value of being good and being right when it comes to making change. Being on the right side of history is not good enough. Having the moral high ground is not good enough. Having integrity is not good enough. Don’t misunderstand me: we should have all of those things. But the fact of the matter is that we can be right and good and moral, and still lose—and I mean in perpetuity—because goodness alone will not create systemic change. If simply being morally right were good enough to win elections or change laws or stop human rights violations, the world would be a very different place.” ~Shaun King, Make Change Food for Thought II: “You can always tell when a person has worked in a restaurant. There’s an empathy that can only be cultivated by those who’ve stood between a hungry mouth and a $28 pork chop, a special understanding of the way a bunch of motley misfits can be a family. Service industry work develops the ‘soft skills’ recruiters talk about on LinkedIn — discipline, promptness, the ability to absorb criticism, and most important, how to read people like a book. The work is thankless and fun and messy, and the world would be a kinder place if more people tried it. With all due respect to my former professors, I’ve long believed I gained more knowledge in kitchens, bars, and dining rooms than any college could even hold.” ~Jen Clarke, Food Service: A Confidential Tie that Binds
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