You don’t have to find out you are dying to start living.
In the movie Clouds (Disney+), Zach mentions this quote a couple of times. My thoughts on the movie will be up some time later, but couldn’t resist posting this quote.
I often have conversations with friends and family about what makes them tick, what makes them happy and what steps to take to pursue it. Finding your bliss will often help in living a (fulfilled) life.
Life is not a competition, it’s a game. It’s not about winning or losing, it’s about all the fun we can have before it ends.
Whether it is the fights we are having in politics or about getting yourself out of bed every morning to go to work or school or trying to keep yourself save health-wise. Everything at times can feel like a fight. So it is good to – at times – take a step back and remember that enjoying life is just as important.
We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious … and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
One of the more famous quotes of the late Walt Disney. It is an inspiration which can be found to this day at Disney, for example in coding of the Disney+ site. It is a philosophy which is embedded in the organization and one to live by. Always be curious, fuel your imagination and never settle with the status quo!
If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.
From his keynote address for the 2017 UCLA Extension Certificate Graduation Ceremony.
I never want to just play in the game, I want to change the way the game is played.
From a movie quiz I did concerning which actor matches your quarantine style. Apparently I’m a “living room athlete”!
Even though it was just a quiz, the quote at the end resonated quite a bit. So #coronavirus? Change the game!
Use your heart, your courage and vision to fix, to heal, to empathize, to connect… Because living life for something bigger than yourself is a hero’s journey.”
From Google – Year in Search 2019
Only a few centuries ago, a mere second in cosmic time, we knew nothing of where or when we were. Oblivious to the rest of the cosmos, we inhabited a kind of prison, a tiny universe bounded by a nutshell.
How did we escape from the prison? It was the work of generations of searchers who took five simple rules to heart.
(1) Question authority. No idea is true just because someone says so, including me.
(2) Think for yourself. Question yourself. Don’t believe anything just because you want to. Believing something doesn’t make it so.
(3) Test ideas by the evidence gained from observation and experiment. If a favorite idea fails a well-designed test, it’s wrong. Get over it.
(4) Follow the evidence wherever it leads. If you have no evidence, reserve judgment.
And perhaps the most important rule of all…
(5) Remember: you could be wrong. Even the best scientists have been wrong about some things. Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history — they all made mistakes. Of course they did. They were human.
Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves, and each other.
A quote from the final episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey which was very humbling and inspirational.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
This is how I feel lately when it comes to people I’m working with. Trying to convince them things aren’t the way they think it is and they have to prepare to be more agile / flexible, so they can adapt to the ever changing situation that is life, work, etc. Instead of trying to think of every possible outcome and making a plan for it. Above quote reflects it nicely.
The world will never be stable again, but in the new normal you will see more and more volatility. You can’t bank on certainties, you have to be an expert on managing uncertainties.
For his full talk on the new normal head over to YouTube.
Perhaps life is not about finding happiness, but about recognizing happiness, being thankful with what we have.