I’m going through my Apple notes and sharing some nuggets I’ve unearthed.
Enjoy.
Curt
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On building ships
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” -A. Saint Saint Exupery
People don’t want to read blueprints; they want to hear a captivating story!
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The wisdom of John Muir
Between every two pine trees, there is a door leading to a new way of life.” John Muir
Emerson. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
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“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met yet.”
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“Here I stand. I can do nothing less.”
-Martin Luther
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The subject line is a quote from the late billionaire W, Clement Stone…
“but here’s the thing… People are always looking for the secret shortcut that changes everything, but those are rare. Great success more often comes from doing a lot of little things well: tweaking, fine-tuning
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On lifetime freinds: “Although our hands do not often touch, our hearts always do.”
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Then Mr. Baggins turned the handle and went in. The Took side had won. He suddenly felt he would go without bed and breakfast to be thought fierce.
-Bilbo Baggins “The Hobbit”
May the Took side always prevail in your life.
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He who dares wins
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All privates retreat. All commanders stay provide covering fire.”
Israeli IDF Captain 1948
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Leaders Eat Last
-Marine Corps Mantra
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Envy is the killer of joy.
-Mark Twain
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Robert Duvall on Wealth:
Never make the mistake of measuring a man’s wealth by how much money he has.
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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Damn! What a Ride!'”
-Hunter S. Thompson,
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Neil Armstrong would later tell his biographer Jay Barbree that Apollo 1 ended up saving lives, too. “We uncovered a whole barrel of snakes. We would have fixed them one by one,” he said. “The fire forced us to shut the program down and redo it right, and we got there on the backs of Gus, Ed, and Roger.”
[. From “The Moon.”
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“What matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim.
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Prosperity is having the resources to do God’s will.
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The question every man must ask himself from time to time: “Now why would I wanna go and do something that stupid?”
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“Who are the nobles of the earth,
The true aristocrats,
Who need not bow their heads to kings
Nor doff to lords their hats?
Who are they but the men of toil
Who cleave the forest down
And plant amid the wilderness, the forest and the town?”
—————- Stewart
George Bernard Shaw: “
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
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Henry Stimson on trust:
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life,” he wrote at the end of his career, “is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
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“I want to thank you ahead of time . . . ” The mystery of high expectations
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* I thoroughly enjoyed the visit, don’t know that you’ll ever realize the impact you’ve had on my life along with other men like me. -Jake Givens
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
I loved every miserable step of it. -Macon “Mac” Rathburn on finishing the Appalachian Trail
I’ve come to believe that I don’t own ‘Where I Come From.’ It seems to own me.
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A well-written and well-made book can help to shape the world around it
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Perfect
It’s not junk.
No, the opposite of perfect is:
Meets spec
Useful
On time
Productive
Valuable
By definition, good enough is good enough. If the spec isn’t what you need, change the spec. But perfect is unattainable and perfect is a place to hide.
But what about that book you just read? Not simply the energy to print it and ship it, or even the energy to grow the trees…
What about the energy of a life well lived by the author? – Seth Godin
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A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.”
Proverbs 13:19
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From Chester Nimitz bio:
However, Murray was two years younger than Mitscher and had graduated from the Academy a year behind him.
Mitscher himself knew that “he had been shelved,” as his biographer put it, and suspected that his naval career was over.
It might well have been but for the fact that Nimitz believed in second chances.
Once again it was an experience from his early career that may have influenced him.
As a twenty-three-year-old ensign in 1907 commanding the destroyer Decatur, Nimitz ran the ship aground on a mud bank in the Philippines. Nimitz managed to get her off the mud bank, and the Decatur suffered no material damage.
He might simply have kept quiet about it, for grounding a ship was a potentially career-ending event.
Yet Nimitz reported it to his superiors and exwcuted a court-martial sentence.
It led him to a public reprimand. It did not end is career,however.
Now, thirty-five years later, he did not discard Mitscher; he kept track of him and made sure to invite him to dinner with some regularity, especially when visiting flag officers or high-ranking officials arrive
-Biography of Chester Nimitz
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“Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time.
He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.”
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.”
Creekbank Stories Curt Iles, Storyteller
