Garth Brooks

We call them cool
Those hearts that have no scars to show
The ones that never do let go
And risk the tables being turned

We call them fools
Who have to dance within the flame
Who chance the sorrow and the shame
That always comes with getting burned

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire
'Cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire - Garth Brooks

Job's Commencement Speech at Stanford

"You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle...

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important thing I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart...

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs

What I love about him is his passion and his disdain for dogma and you can see it in the products he creates.  His competitors seem to just copy him.

I think you should watch the speech if you haven't ever heard it because every time I hear it I am inspired.  Click.

Einstein Inspiration

These are some quotes from Albert Einstein I like:

Learn from yesterday, life for today, hope for tomorrow.  The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Logic will get you from A to B.  Imagination will take you everywhere.

Imagination is everything.  It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

I have no particular talent.  I am merely inquisitive.

- Albert Einstein


I just think Albert Einstein is amazing and want to spend some time studying theoretical physics...  why am I obsessed with dead people?  Maybe its because I was a history major.  Anyway, I think we can learn a lot from the past. 

More Quotes

Most people give up when they're about to achieve success.  They quit on the one yard line.  They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.  - Ross Perot

Success is measured by how far you bounce back after hitting bottom.  - General George S. Patton

(these quotes I got from the blog I mentioned in my last post)

Mark Twain and Inspiring Blog

"Keep away from people who try to belittle  your ambitions.  Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain 

I love Mark Twain - what a legend.  More inspiration from Mark Twain to come. 

Also,

This is seriously a great blog



ps I like to keep these posts short and sweet - I don't like lots of words as you can see.

Clips on failure

Awesome

Cute and Inspiring

Theodore Roosevelt

Keeping with the theme of US presidents for now here is another, very well known, but I think it rocks:

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... who strives valiantly, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in worthy causes. Who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

TJ Wisdom

I am a TJ fan... here are some quotes I like by Thomas Jefferson:

"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."

"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the hard I work, the more I have of it."

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

And my favorite:

"Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

LSD Inventor

I read an article in the Economist a couple of years ago, I thought was really cool - being outside sometimes makes me think of it.  Anyway, I thought I would include it in my blog of inspiration. 

The article was about Albert Hofmann, the inventor of LSD.  People asked him what is it like to be tripped out and he responded:

"Go to the meadow, go to the garden, go to the woods.  Open your eyes!"