Inspiration

Know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It’s 25 hits. 25 hits in 500 at bats is 50 points, okay? There’s 6 months in a season, that’s about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week – just one – a gork… you get a groundball, you get a groundball with eyes… you get a dying quail, just one more dying quail a week… and you’re in Yankee Stadium. – Crash Davis

Sometimes you take a job for one reason only to find out later that the reality vastly exceeds your expectations. Keep an open mind in all things because you just might be surprised by the results. – Dad

Rules for being Human (Handed down from ancient Sanskrit)

1. You will receive a body.
2. You will learn lessons.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.
4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned.
5. Learning lessons does not end.
6. ‘There’ is no better than ‘here’.
7. Others are merely mirrors of you.
8. What you make of your life is up to you.
9. The answers lie inside you.

My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn’t believe that it was possible for him and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant and when I was 12 years old he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father. Not the least of which was that: You can fail at what you don’t want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. – Jim Carrey

Guessing is how reason proceeds in the absence of fact. – Stanley Tucci as Jefferson Grieff

Whatever you put out there comes back to you. – Joe Madden