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Why Would I Stop… @lydiiloo…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *PB* The Warm-Up: “Everyone wants the ingredients, but the formula always changes. Consistency + time is all you can count on.” ~Codie Sanchez The Core: “I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.” ~Walt Whitman (@__nitch) “On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.” ~Chuck Noll “I tried everything. Parties, women, buying expensive jewelry…Nothing helped. There was no peace, just emptiness inside. When I found Christ, I found what I had been missing all those years.” ~Deion Sanders “The ‘force of will’ people contain, produces more magic in their work & life, than all the hacks in the world. A motivated person who is willing to do what it takes, has a way of bending the world.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner “Let them be confused. Let them misunderstand you. Let them think they’ve ‘figured you out.’ Stop concerning yourself with the way that you’re labelled in their stories and focus on writing your next chapter with intention.” ~Michell C. Clark “People didn’t believe me when I told them I practiced harder than I played, but it was true. That’s where my comfort zone was created. By the time the game came, all I had to do was react to what my body was already accustomed to doing.” ~Michael Jordan “Deion has created a lot of buzz. When you’re creating that much buzz, people want to see you fall. … I applaud Deion because he sticks to his guns. He talks the talk, he walks the walk. He owns it when they get beat.” ~Aaron Rodgers, on Colorado Football | via The Pat McAfee Show “A good story is like leverage for ideas. Stories leverage ideas the same way debt leverages assets. A idea on its own might be boring, but if you tell a good story about someone interacting with that idea, you can get people to nod their heads and pay attention.” ~Morgan Housel, The Written Word “If you weren’t good enough…you wouldn’t have the insight. If you weren’t ready…you wouldn’t have the opportunity. You’re not being asked to have it all figured out. You’re being asked to move into something bigger…What you think is something ridiculous is actually something significant.” ~Matt Gottesman “These diamonds be talkin’ in they sleep / You know not to test me like SAT / They pay me like RiRi, A-S-A-P / Hotter than AZ, cool as an AC / Yeah, my diamonds gon’ sing, like do-re-mi / Yeah, my diamonds gon’ dance, like my bro CB / And I pop two …that’s Dos Equis / Yeah, brand new money, brand new hundreds / Got a bunch of zeros like a bag of new Funyuns…” ~Lil Wayne, in Brand New, Tyga, Lil Wayne, YG “You won’t build a healthy body and a calm mind in just a few months. You won’t be fluent in a foreign language and be capable of fun, deep conversations in just a few months. You won’t build a loving family and a circle of trusted friends in just a few months. You won’t turn around decades of bad habits in just a few months. You won’t build a portfolio of assets that give you financial freedom in just a few months. You won’t unlearn years of accumulated anger, anxiety, frustration, in just a few months. You won’t build the perspective that allows you to enjoy life in a more detached way in just a few months.” ~Orange Book Last Set: “Since culture is observational, not aspirational, we need to model the behavior we want to see. I have often written about the fact that for years – including the years I was building Netflix – I left home promptly at 5:00 every Tuesday for a date night with my wife. If there was a crisis, we were going to wrap it up by 5:00. If you desperately need to talk to me, we can talk on the way to the car. And while this behavior may have saved my sanity (and my marriage), the real benefit is that the rest of the company could see that I meant it when I told them that I expected them to carve out time for themselves. Is this easy? No. But is it essential? Yes. Because when all is said and done, the only people who are going to remember all those nights and weekends you spent at the office are your children.” ~Marc Randolph, Three Questions for Netflix Co-Founder Food For Thought: “…It’s the best negotiating lesson I’ve ever heard in my life, where he comes in…Yeah. Gary Oldman plays a pimp and he owns, his girl is Patricia Arquette, right? And Christian Slater’s character, the protagonist is coming in to tell Gary Oldman that he no longer owns this girl, Alabama…Alabama is going to be with him now. And Gary Oldman is an amazing performance. And he’s sitting in a living room with a shotgun next to him, with armed guys around him watching television and eating Chinese food. And he’s got Chinese food laid out in front of him. And Christian Slater comes in and he says, ‘I need to talk to you about Alabama.’ And Gary Oldman says, ‘Do you want some Chinese food?’ And Christian Slater sort of taken aback by the question. He says, ‘No, I came to talk about Alabama. She’s with me now.’ And he proceeds to tell him what his offer essentially is. And Gary Oldman says, ‘You know, you [messed] up, right?’… In substance he says, ‘If you’d sat down and started eating my Chinese food, I would’ve thought who’s this guy, he didn’t have a care in the world, just sitting down eating my egg foo young. But instead you tried to be hard. And now I know you’re full of shit.’ And so I think that scene summarizes how in negotiation, the more you enter into it with that, anytime I deal with another lawyer and they’re like, ‘Well, we’ll see you in court.’ Okay, see you in court. Empty barrels make the most noise….” ~James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #396
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