"People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)"
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"To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen."
"My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me."
"Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure."
"No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore."
"When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself."
"I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line."
"The way to expand our lives is to model the lives of those people who are already succeeding."
"Inside of all of us we have these patterns where we eventually become at least ethnocentric. We care about our group, our mom, our dad, our family, our religion. And some people, eventually, evolve beyond that until they're more human-centric or even spirit-centric where they care about everything."
"You can get connections in lots of ways. You can get it by a friendship. You can get it by a dog. You can get it by a child. You can get it by being attached to a cause. You can get it by having huge problems and sharing those problems with other people."
"I got addicted to lighting people up, just seeing people so happy 'cause they rediscovered what they're capable of and so that became my life's work."
"My favorite prayer is thank you. Most people are asking for things and not doing their part."
"The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission."
"If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually."
"We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others."
"There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states."
"The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves."
"People will go into a relationship, if it's a brand new relationship, it's so exciting because it's something brand new, it's variety, it's different. And you're so excited by the feelings. And what most people try to do because they don't want to lose that, they try to control it to make it certain. And if they make it so certain then you become bored in the relationship. It's a delicate balance."
"The best tool today is longevity insurance - they call it income insurance. Most people know the value of life insurance. But what if you live? So instead of trying to guess one or the other, you plan for those 20 years and you get this income insurance. If you live beyond 85, you have money that's guaranteed for as long as you live in the form of an annuity."
"Most people, if they're doing really well in their career, often don't have the right intimacy with their partner, or they're doing great in their home life, but their finances are a mess."