Mark Cuban: "Don't follow your dreams. Follow your effort!"

So many people always talk about their dreams. I think the biggest lie in all of business or all of mentoring is "follow your dreams." Because if you think about it, we all have dreams. I started off wanting to be a baseball player. I dreamed of this and then I dreamed of that. Then you realize that where you should go is where your effort takes you.

Yah, I practice baseball and basketball and loved it, but then i found myself spending more time with business and learning about business and being involved with business. It was really my effort that drove me.

I always tell people, "Don't follow your dreams. Follow your effort." Where are you willing to put in the time. Where are you hungry enough to put in the time? Because that is where you will get results.

Paulo's Twitter Quotes

The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you

To love is great. To be loved is wonderful. But to be loved by the person we love is heaven on earth.

Either we control our actions, or our actions will control us

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: NEVER LIE TO YOURSELF

Love is like a river; it flows around rocks, adapts itself to valleys and mountains

In real life,the princesses kiss princes, and then princes turn into frogs

Don't kill time. Because time is killing you

The pursuit of perfection is a disguise for insecurity

A life without a cause is a life without an effect

(only up to 4/22/13)

Quote about Truth (by me)

Truth is Overrated...

Telling the truth when happy is called bragging...
Telling the truth when sad is called complaining...

to please others, tell them what they want to hear...

save the truth for yourself...
you are the only person that will benefit from it...and the only person who cares to listen....

Ratatouille Quote

"Not anyone can become a great artist, but great artists can come from anywhere." - Ego

Frasier Quote

"While it’s tempting to play it safe, the more we’re willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took."


The poem Frasier quotes in this episode is a shortened version of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s "Ulysses".
 
"It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And though we are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are—
[Scene shifts to Frasier’s KACL booth.]
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will;
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
I’ve been thinking about that poem a lot lately. And I think what it says is that, while it’s tempting to play it safe, the more we’re willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took. And I hope that explains, at least a little, this journey on which I am about to embark. I have loved every minute with my KACL family, and all of you. For eleven years you've heard me say, "I’m listening." Well, you were listening, too. And for that I am eternally grateful. Goodnight, Seattle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight,_Seattle

My Quote on Perfection

Perfection should always be seeked, but never demanded...

goes in hand with my other quote of:

Make excuses for others, but never for yourself...

Inspirational Quotes

If you're going through hell, keep going.  ~Winston Churchill

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold.  They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.  ~Barbara Bloom

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.  ~George Weinberg

The important thing is not how many years in your life but how much life in your years. ~Edward J. Stieglitz 

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.  ~William James 

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.  ~Author Unknown

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.  ~Maori Proverb  

Einstein's "Secret"

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein

Vince Lombardi Quotes

"The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary."

"Quitters never win and winners never quit."

Secret of a Full Life

"The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow. ... This thought has made me more and more attentive to all encounters, meetings, introductions, which might contain the seed of depth that might be carelessly overlooked.

"This feeling has become a rarity, and rarer every day now that we have reached a hastier and more superficial rhythm, now that we believe we are in touch with a greater amount of people, more people, more countries. This is the illusion which might cheat us of being in touch deeply with the one breathing next to us. The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision."

- Anais Nin

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/28/tech/mobile/netiquette-eight-phone-habits/?iref=obinsite

Travel Quotes

New things

“For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it." -- Alex Garland, "The Beach"

Internal discoveries

"One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things." -- Henry Miller, "Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch." 

Packing 

"Packing up. The nagging worry of departure. Lost keys, unwritten labels, tissue paper lying on the floor. I hate it all. Even now, when I have done so much of it, when I live, as the saying goes, in my boxes. Even to-day, when shutting drawers and flinging wide a hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa, is a methodical matter of routine, I am aware of sadness, of a sense of loss. Here, I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has been ours, however brief the time. Though two nights only have been spent beneath a roof, yet we leave something of ourselves behind. Nothing material, not a hair-pin on a dressing-table, not an empty bottle of aspirin tablets, not a handkerchief beneath a pillow, but something indefinable, a moment of our lives, a thought, a mood. This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again." -- Daphne du Maurier, "Rebecca." 

http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/escape/literary-travel-quotes-292552

2. Fame

“The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.” -- Britney Spears, American pop star

3. American tourists

"There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home." -- Stephen Colbert, talk show host

10. Passport photos

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” -- Al Gore, environmental activist

12. Taking photos

“When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like, 'What do I do … I don’t really ... ha-huh ...' Yeah, it’s the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!” -- Dane Cook, comedian 

http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/20-funniest-things-ever-said-about-travel-015440?page=0,0

Jiro: You must fall in love...

Quotes by Gandhi, and Dr. Seuss

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

- Gandhi

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” 

- Walter Winchell

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” 

- Dr. Seuss

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” 

- Dr. Seuss

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” 

- Dr. Seuss

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” 

- Dr. Seuss

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” 

- Dr. Seuss

Inner Beauty Quotes

"It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart."

-Anonymous

Read more: http://www.beliefnet.com/Inspiration/2010/07/Quotes-that-Celebrate-Inner-Beauty.aspx?p=10#ixzz1pFgP7EUS

Beauty - Confucious

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

-Confucius

Read more: http://www.beliefnet.com/Inspiration/2010/07/Quotes-that-Celebrate-Inner-Beauty.aspx?p=7#ixzz1pFg35Q4o

Beauty vs Books

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".” 
― Marilyn Monroe

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/inner-beauty

Education Quotes

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”  Eartha Kitt quotes

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan


It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus

Tzu-Ssu Quote

The mature person...makes sure that his own conduct is correct and seeks nothing from others; thus he is never disappointed. He has no complaints against heaven and no blame toward other people.

Quote on Winning

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

- Catfish Hunter

Need a quote

I want to find a quote to remind you to look at the good in people...yet still remain realistic to find solutions to real problems...

but can't find any..

tried to make my own with no avail...here was my attempt:


Simon: See the good in people, see the reality of the situation, and acknowledge the bad to find solutions.