GREAT QUOTES

Presence requires absence from the unnecessary.

If anyone ever tells you that your dreams are silly, remember that there’s some rich dude walking around that invented the pool noodle.

The more society drifts away from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

If you want to make everyone happy, don’t be a leader, sell ice cream.

Your worst day taught you more than your best day ever could. Good days confirm. Bad days educate. If you're only grateful for the good ones, you're missing half the curriculum.

Whenever you encounter an inconvenience today, just remember there's a woman in the 1800s who birthed 8 kids naturally, worked on a farm before the invention of weekends, and was considered soft.

Using Al in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Stop being a baby when you get feedback. Someone is sharing how they experience you. They might fumble, be insensitive, offend you, or even be wrong. Who cares? Say ‘Thank you,’ so they'll keep doing it. This is the data you need to improve.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The river doesn't argue with the rocks; it flows around them.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

To subordinate your ego you must have incredible confidence. If you find you cannot put your ego in check because you're afraid it might make you look weak, then guess what: you ARE weak.

While we are fighting monsters, we must be careful not to become monsters ourselves.

Emotional intelligence is the discipline of sitting with a feeling long enough enough to understand it before you handed off to someone else else.

Unless children, especially the children of rich parents and royalty, are made to realize that they must work, they remain children all their lives.

Today I will do what others won’t do tomorrow I can do what others can’t.

The most expensive thing you own is your attention. And you give it away for free every day. To strangers, arguments, and content that makes you worse. Start charging. Be stingy with it. It's worth more than you think.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

You cannot control how long life lasts. But caring for your body is one way of saying: ‘I value the time I've been given.’

The reason fit people stay fit is because what you see as fitness, they see as life.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.

Some of life's most expensive decisions are made to relieve temporary discomfort.

If violent crime needs to be curved, it is only the intended victim who can do it. Criminals do not fear the police, the judge, or the jury. Therefore, he must be taught to fear his victim.

The universe protects you in ways that often look like bad luck at first. Trust the detour.

Your best people rarely need more pressure. They’re already putting pressure on themselves. What they need is clarity, trust, and a leader who notices when they’re carrying too much.

Never forget that you are your own data center. Drink plenty of water and consume as much literature as possible.

Your two eyes receive slightly different versions of the same world. Then the brain combines them to create depth, which means depth itself is born from allowing more than one perspective to be true.

I'm convinced that the key to life is having low expectations and high standards. Low expectations for things outside your control. High standards for things within it. The recipe for a good life.

We tend to value things more when we have personally helped create them rather than just be given them. The effort, time, and involvement make us feel a sense of ownership. We don't just see the outcome, we see a part of ourselves in it.

The fastest way to kill a good idea is to ask ten people what they think about it.

If you get into business to solve problems, you'll make money. If you get into business to make money, you'll have problems.

If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy, but the same amount of snow.

Being intelligent is a curse. You understand the game, observe the lies, and recognize the patterns. But you still need to act like an idiot to survive.

The most important skill in life is the ability to be wrong gracefully. Not defensively. Not with excuses. Gracefully. 'I was wrong. Here's what I learned.' That sentence builds more trust than a year of being right.

Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can.

Freedom isn't a bigger paycheck. It's a smaller bill.

The internet convinced you that you deserve the best without putting in the work to become the best. The dream is free, but the hustle is not.

If you can overthink the worst, why can't you overthink the best?

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.

Call a rich man broke, and he'll laugh. Call a strong man weak, and he'll laugh. Call a genius dumb, and he'll laugh. It's only offensive when it's true. The criticism that hurts most usually points to what needs work most.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

I love my children enough to hold them accountable, not blindly defend them. I'm raising good humans, not children who believe they can do no wrong.

The average American watches 3.7 hours of TV per day. That same American exercises for 0.31 hours per day. If you have almost 4 hours to sit on your butt, you have time to move your body.

You have to work hard in the dark to shine in the light.

If you’ve already made peace with possible failure, fear has very little left to threaten you with.

Ironically, the fewer people you try to impress, the more impressive you become.

Influence matters more as a parent than control. The goal was never to raise children who simply listen while we're watching. It was to help them make wise choices when we're not.

Life changes when you stop asking ‘Why is this happening to me?’ And start asking ‘Who do I want to become?’

What are you so afraid of losing when nothing in this world belongs to you?

No matter what your goal is, you will suffer to achieve it. So pick a goal big enough it's worth suffering for.

The most important thing you can do for your students is to demand more of them than they think they are capable of.

The person who serves others will never run out of opportunities.

Every time you level up, your old life will try to call you back. Don't answer.

A bad product with great service gets a second chance. A great product with bad service gets replaced.

Normalize being curious rather than judgmental when others live their life in a way you don't understand.

Socialism, a system that works only in Heaven, where it isn't needed, and in Hell, where they've already got it.

A smart person does not say everything they think, but thinks about everything they say.

Two things define you, your patience when you have nothing, your attitude when you have everything.

We are not in the same boat, we are in the same storm. Somehow have yachts, some have canoes, and some are drowning. just be kind and help when you can.

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief or any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

By getting rid of paper files and replacing them with digital ones, they can erase history. One day you'll encounter the message 'page not found,' and the next day you'll see them deny that it ever actually happened.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that where you down. It’s the pebble in your shoe.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. at the end of the day you bet on people, not strategies.

I don't think bad things happen to good people. I think bad things happen to everyone, and the way good people respond is what makes them good.

It's not what you say. It's what the other person hears. Those are different things. The gap between what you meant and what they understood is where most human conflict lives.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair their nets.

There's nothing like packing up everything you own to make you question every thing you own.

Lions succeed in only 15% of their hunts, yet remain the apex predator. You don't need a 100% success rate to win. You just need to be consistent.

If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, then you don’t know what you’re doing.

When pen and paper meat, thoughts become complete.

10% of people will find a way to take anything personally. Expect this, and treat it as math.

Avoid ‘constructive’ feedback from people who have never constructed anything.

People will admire your depth until it’s time to swim in it. They’ll praise your wisdom until it holds them accountable. They’ll love your light until it exposes their shadows.

The best tools get built when the pain becomes personal enough.

Every business has two sales teams. The ones you hire, and your existing customers. The second one is usually more powerful because of inherent trust. Happy customers become salespeople your customers can’t hire.

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

The strongest are gentle. The smartest are quiet. The wealthiest are simple. The happiest are private. Real power doesn't need to prove itself.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

When it comes to many of life’s problems, they can become catastrophes or manageable - it’s your choice. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the real size of the problem.

If a storm you have to go through ends up drawing you closer to God...it was all worth it.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.

Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist, simply look ahead.

Self-discipline is just keeping promises to yourself. That's it. Wake up early? Skip the drink? Do the workout? Promises kept. Stack enough kept promises and you become someone you trust.

Nobody tells you this about regret: The regret from trying and failing fades in weeks. The regret from never trying lasts decades. One is a bruise, the other is haunting. The math overwhelmingly favors action. Even bad action.

You don't have to be everyone's butterfly. You can also be a bee. Mind your business, make your honey, and sting people when necessary.

One day, you'll kiss your spouse for the last time. Love them like you don't know which kiss it will be.

When we try to keep all the doors open, for fear we walk through the wrong one, we may end up having all the doors closed on us.

In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens Lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing - refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

I'm not pessimistic, but a stupid civilization using artificial intelligence can only lead to disaster.

It's simple to cheer for someone who plays the victim, but if you don't question the story, you might end up supporting the very person who started the fire.

The things you postpone are usually the things that would most improve your life. The workout. The conversation. The project. The rest. Procrastination has impeccable taste. It only targets high-value activities.

The devil's favorite kind of Christian is the one who is busy but prayerless, gifted but undisciplined, and is informed but unchanged.

A broke man blames the boss, the economy, the system. A disciplined man blames his sleep, diet, focus, and skills.

When we understand that each day isn't one more day, but one less, we start giving more value to what truly matters.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do. It’s measured by what you do with the talents God gave you.

Good writing is expensive, but bad writing costs a fortune.