Be Bold and Mighty Forces Will Come to Your Aid
Nehemiah is bold and the unimaginable happens: the throne representing the entire Persian empire gets behind him.
Breaking Free From the Dope of Acceptance
I think good preachers should be like bad kids. They ought to be naughty enough to tiptoe up on dozing congregations, steal their bottles of religion pills… and flush them all down the drain.
Hack away the unessential
“It is not daily increase but daily decrease; hack away the unessential.” Bruce Lee quotes
Your Playing Small Doesn’t Serve Anyone Well
I highlighted this quote by Marianne Williamson in a book I’m reading: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually,…
Ultimate Fighters: Teddy Roosevelt and The Apostle Paul
I’ve had this quote from Theodore Roosevelt’s “The Man In The Arena” speech displayed in my office for years: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who…
Hey Dumbo, Stay Stupid!
Michael Hyatt shared this quote from Do The Work (Steven Pressfield) on his blog and I had to repost it! Great stuff! The three dumbest guys I can think of: Charles Lindbergh, Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill. Why? Because any smart person who understood how impossibly arduous were the tasks they had set themselves would have…
Is Being Fearless Overrated?
I don’t know how else to make a movie except to try and find some aspect of the experience that I haven’t done before. Because if I’ve done it before, I’m fearless. And I don’t work well when I’m fearless. I’m not as good a filmmaker if I know exactly what I’m doing every step…
Captain America: a weak man knows the value of strength… and compassion #quote
My favorite quote from Captain America: The First Avenger Abraham Erskine to Captain America: “This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows… compassion.”
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s so easy to drift in life. When drift happens, we lose sense of our purpose. Goal setting helps to prevent drift by giving you something concrete to focus on. When you have distinct goals, it has a…
Brad Keselowski inspired by Ray Lewis quote
I loved this quote by Brad Keselowski after winning the 2012 Nascar Sprint Cup Championship: “I saw this really cool video that Ray Lewis did and he said, ‘Throughout my whole life I’ve been told that I’m not big enough, I’m not fast enough, I’m not strong enough and I don’t have what it takes,’…