Nuggets of wisdom III

Some quotes, a collection of wisdom from mass media puts things in perspective.

Quod vitae sectabor iter – “We’re all gonna die. We don’t get much to say over how and when. But we do get to decide how we’re gonna live. So do it. Decide. Is this the life you want to live? Is this the best you can be? Can you be stronger? Kinder? More compassionate? Decide. Breathe in. Breathe out. And decide.” Lines by Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) from Grey’s Anatomy, Season 10, Episode 1, Sep 2013.

“The contest is a lion fight. So chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don’t lick your wounds. Celebrate them. The scars you bear are the sign of a competitor. You’re in a lion fight, Stevens. Just because you didn’t win doesn’t mean you don’t know how to roar.” Lines by Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) from Grey’s Anatomy, Season 4, Episode 12, Apr 2008.

“When you have children, you always have family. They will always be your priority, your responsibility. And a man… A man provides. And he does it even when he’s not appreciated or respected or even loved. He simply bears up, and he does it because he is a man.” Lines by Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) from Breaking Bad, Season 5, 2012.

“…Autonomy: The urge to direct our own lives, Mastery: The desire to get better and better at something that matters, Purpose: The yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves.” Dan Pink, The Puzzle of Motivation, TedGlobal 2009.

“If so, the world is getting better at every single day by the fact, not by optimism, why do we feel or think the other way around? Primarily due to our cognitive bias and nature of news. In other words, if you combine our cognitive bias and the nature of news, you can see why the world has been coming to an end for a very long time indeed.” Steven Pinker, Is the World Getting Better or Worse? A Look at the Numbers, Ted2018.

“…because it’s not up to us whether what we do is any good, and if history has taught us anything, the world is an extremely unreliable critic, Right? …The time of our life is so short, and how we spend it – are we spending it doing what’s important to us? …You just have to follow your love. There is no path. There is no path till you walk it, and you have to be willing to play the fool.” Ethan Hawke, Give yourself permission to be creative, Ted2020.

“If you don’t have doubt, it probably means that you’re being arrogant.” Rafael Nadal, 60 Minutes, May 16, 2021.

“And once we clued into the fact that life is finite, the thought of losing it didn’t scare us anymore. The end comes no matter what. The only thing that matters is how do you want to go out? On your feet or on your knees? I bring that lesson to this job. I act knowing that someday this job will end, no matter what. You should do the same,” Robert Grace (Richard Jenkins), FBI director from The Kingdom, 2007.

“I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’” from (BrainyQuote) Nicole Kidman.

“It’s you against you out there,” Stanley Sugerman (Adam Sandler) from Hustle, 2022.

“And I’ll just leave you with one thing,” Moore said, “that I think this movie is imparting. In those moments when we don’t think we’re smart enough, we’re pretty enough, we’re skinny enough, we’re successful enough, or basically just not enough. I had a woman say to me, ‘Just know you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick.’ And so today, I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and of the love that is driving me and for the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I do belong. Thank you so muhc.” from Demi Moore’s Golden Globes speech, LA Times, 5 Jan 25.

“It is the pursuit of perfection. Well-knowing we can’t achieve perfection, we can achieve excellence along the way,” Vince Lombadi

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails,” Mark Twain.