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“I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it.” -Charles Bukowski Almost every well known actor, writer and director has their own production company. They utilize their clout to find projects and stories they’re passionate about and produce them. As opposed to waitingContinue reading “Control Your Artistic Destiny”

Telling someone to “work smarter” is useless because it assumes they already know what smarter looks like. If they did, they’d be doing it.“Work smarter, not harder” is often framed as the opposite of hard work, but working smart is itself a derivative of hard work. You have to work hard just to figure outContinue reading “Smart Follows Hard”

“If we are open only to discoveries which will accord with what we know already, we may as well stay shut.” -Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity “Suffering is whenever you’re not in control.” -Richard Rohr “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” -Seneca “Trust in the Lord with all your heart andContinue reading “An Opportunity For Trust”

“He does the work. I do the cleanup. Then we fight.” -Robert Gottlieb, editor, on his working relationship with author, Robert Caro. “The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scaleContinue reading “Know The Level Of Collaboration”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor RooseveltContinue reading “Can Do”

“Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The tricksterContinue reading “Crying Laughing”

“Another has done me wrong? Let him see to it. He has his own tendencies, and his own affairs. What I have now is what the common nature has willed, and what I endeavor to accomplish now is what my nature wills.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations “If we do not transform our pain, we will mostContinue reading “Write It. But Don’t Send It.”

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -Ralph Waldo Emerson “You’ll find your answer in action, not research.” -Paul Shirley ‘”As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” -Rumi When you have an idea that lights you up, rather thanContinue reading “Walk…The Way”

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” -Stephen Covey “Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.” -Mark Cuban Before you can keep the main thing the main thing, youContinue reading “The Main Thing?”

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.” -Alexander Pope “When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you’ll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger.” -Marcus Aurelius “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” -Hanlon’s Razor “How much betterContinue reading “Let Them Know”