“You embrace that which defines you.”
- Donna Cook, mother of comedian and actor Dane Cook
On dating men
“Just ignore everything they say and just pay attention to what they do. Because if you do that, you’re not gonna make all the big mistakes.”
- David Pausch, on Oprah 10/22/2007 giving future dating advice to his baby daughter, Chloe.
reading note: David Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon and is dying of pancreatic cancer. Show notes: Guests who are facing death share candid confessions and how they live their lives.
Our Finer Moments
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
M. Scott Peck
Ordinary Things, Extraordinary Life
“The greatest results in life are usually attained
by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities.
These may for the most part be summed up in these
two – common sense and perseverance.”
- Owen Feltham
Do it again
“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t do.”
- Thomas Edison
Leisure Activities
“It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.”
- Agnes Repplier
Who You Are is More Important Than What You Are
“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; money takes wings. All that endures is character.”
-Tom Selleck
Qualities in Action
“In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to theose who show their good qualities in action.”
- Aristotle
Defining moments
“We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.”
- Robert T. Kiyosaki
Why We Want You to be Rich, p. 169
What Lies Beneath
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
