Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It’s a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don’t read. In truth, I wish you’d read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.
Call home at least once a week. It’s a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that’s wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.
Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don’t fool with it.
Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.
Find your passion and follow it. You wont find that passion in things or money. Your passion must come from what fuels you from the inside. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes.
Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.
Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.
When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them – even if someone has practically had to throw you over – it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.
Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it.
The size of your audience doesn’t matter. What’s important is that your audience is listening.
The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective.
I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they’re given the resources.
I didn’t know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
Complaining does not work as a strategy.
And even though I did not reach the NFL, I sometimes think I got more from persuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, then I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.
Not everything needs to be fixed.
Sometimes all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.
Focus on other people, not on yourself.
I don’t believe in the no-win scenario.