The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.” – Morgan Freeman 2. “How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.” – Morgan Freeman 3. ”If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.” – Morgan Freeman 4. “I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.” – Morgan Freeman 5. “I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.” – Morgan Freeman 6. “Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what’s going to happen.” – Morgan Freeman 7. “I knew at …show more content…
“I feel fine, I don’t care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing – all of us – everybody in the business – that’s all you ask anyone – you know your job, I know mine, let’s go do it.” – Morgan Freeman 9. “Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.” – Morgan Freeman 10. “People hear that and say I’m being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I’m doing and what I’m doing is channeling.” – Morgan Freeman 11. “As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.” – Morgan Freeman 12. “Give me something interesting to play and I’m happy.” – Morgan Freeman 13. “I gravitate towards gravitas.” – Morgan Freeman 14. “And some places you been before are so great that you don’t ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don’t ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.” – Morgan
4. “My hunting hat really gave me quite a lot of protection…but I got soaked anyway…I didn’t care though. I felt so damn happy all of a sudden.” (Salinger, 275)
9. I am aware that I am exercising some nerve myself in saying what philosophers should not say.
1) "Hassan never denied me anything...but he never told on me. never told that the mirror, like shooting walnuts at the neighbor's dog, was always my idea."
“I have lived every day of my life asking myself ‘is what I’m doing reflective of who I am? Or who I want to be?’ If not...”
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3. “He always said that whenever he saw a dead man’s mouth he saw the folly of not eating what one had in one’s lifetime.”
...following through with my commitments. I know I struggle sometimes with following through with commitments but I remind myself of the importance of being a trustworthy person. I focus on expressing gratitude, because I realize the significance in my life. I express gratitude because I know everything existing in my life is without reason. Integrity becomes an important value in my life, simply because I know my credibility is on the line. Working in an environment where integrity is sometimes forgotten, my duty becomes exemplifying integrity with everyone I meet. My purpose becomes a reality in my life as I am continually seeing the positivity in things concerning my life. My life purpose statement, “I am the geyser so that people spew out positivity to those around them.”
Steve Jobs is trying to say that you should live every day like it is your last. He knew his life had value to him and his family. He felt like life was worth living even though once in a while a hard choice would come along to toughen his life. Making a choice is very hard, but when making a choice it should be one that you will not regret later in life. Making choices is one of the hardest things in life so you must see all the good and all the bad to the outcome of your options. Live everyday like it is your last. Ebert says that life is a very precious thing. Hamlet wants to die, but him not knowing what is on the other side scares so he decides to live. Even though Ebert had to get surgery, he got through it and learned to still live his life with no regrets.
I chose the quote “We are who we choose to be.” which was stated by the Green Goblin in the movie Spiderman. It is important to live by this quote because you can’t let other people tell you who you are going to be. People need to b who they want to be. It is only your decision, not anyone else's. Here are a few people who i think live by this quote.
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6) Integrity- Do what is right at all times, even when no one is watching.
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“5. FRUGALITY Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e. waste nothing.”
Even though I really liked most of the quotes, there was one that really appealed to me. The quote I liked the most was the one by Richard Feynman, because it was the one I agreed the most with. I think we'd all be a lot happier if we stopped worrying about what others think we should accomplish and rather focus on what we ourselves want to do.
“I am a thoroughly good person and I am going to be a big success in life. Everything that happens to me, good or bad, is simply a part of the process of achieving the great success and happiness that is inevitable for me.”