Stuff About Things #28

“I hate how many people think 'glass half-empty' when their glass is really four-fifths full. I’m grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.”
     — Gary Vaynerchuk

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
     — Zora Neale Hurston

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
     — Dostoyevsky

“We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most fucks about, and that is time.”
     — Gary Vaynerchuk

“It is not position but contribution that makes a leader.”
     — Apoorve Dubey

“The key to life is not accumulation, it is contribution.”
     — Stephen Covey

“Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.”
     — Gary Vaynerchuk

“For every angel-investor-funded high-tech training fortress, there's a Doug's Gym - a place unfazed by time, capital, or whatever the hell is trending on popular fitness Instagram accounts. At Doug's, you won't find any air conditioning, cardio machines, or bullshit. You will find dumbbells, barbells, and medicine balls that've been used since the Kennedy administration, when the gym's doors first opened. Of course, you'll also find Doug. Eighty-five years old and healthy as a horse, he's encouraging guys a quarter of his age as he cranks through total-body lifts like push presses, squats, and lunges with a 50-pound dumbbell in each hand. Doug himself is the real promise, reminding all who come that getting and staying fit isn't so much about what you're doing or the fancy gym you're doing it in. The important thing is that you're doing something - hard - a few days a week, every week, in a place that just feels right."
     — Men's Health

“You could fill the Staples Center with the amount of acting jobs I've wanted and lost over the years."
     — Ryan Reynolds

“In order to be happy, you have to be willing to be disliked. In order to respect yourself, you have to be unafraid to disappoint others. You have to make tough decisions.... The people who have made the greatest impressions on me in my life take care of themselves and don't always look for the most pleasing answer in any given moment. Happiness, like so many things, is a choice. I know this only because I've worked with and spent time with so many people who don't choose it.”
     — Ryan Reynolds

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
     — Marilyn Monroe

“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.”
     — Kyle Chandler

“I want to feel my life while I'm in it.”
     — Meryl Streep

“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
     — Audre Lorde

“I like criticism. It makes you strong.”   
     — Lebron James

“Little by little, one travels far.”  
     — J.R.R. Tolkien

“Time is how you spend your love.”
     — Zadie Smith

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
     — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
     — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.”
     — Bill Murray