Speaker 1

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. --Alexander Hamilton
“We are living in an age that glorifies the single study." --— Nina Strohminger
The words of truth are simple. --Aeschylus

Speaker 2

If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity. --Albert Einstein
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. --Eleanor Roosevelt
You shine like the light from the sun

Speaker 3

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. --Dolores Huerta
Activism has been very productive in our society. --Anthony Fauci
“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” --— Margaret Thatcher

Speaker 4

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be --Maslow
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” --— Albert Einstein

Speaker 5

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” --— Friedrich Nietzsche
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. --Benjamin Franklin
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. --Abraham Lincoln

Speaker 6

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. --Jim Hightower
Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today. --Abraham Lincoln
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Speaker 7

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. --George Bernard Shaw
"No nation was ever ruined by trade." --— Benjamin Franklin
If watchin' is all you're gonna do, then you're gonna watch your life go by without ya

Speaker 1

"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice." --— Henry Ford
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance. --Alex Rodriguez

Speaker 2

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” --— Buddha
"If there's anything important about history, it's that stupidity wins.” --— Jerry Casale
Banish the word struggle from our attitude and vocabulary. --Except from “To My Fellow Swimmers” by the Elders of the Hopi Nation

Speaker 3

Always stand on principle...even if you stand alone. --John Adams
We had each other. That’s how we won. --Lando Calrissian, The Rise of Skywalker
“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.” --— Robert A. Heinlein

Speaker 4

"If you're always successful at BS'ing it's because you are not hanging around people who are smarter than you.” --— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.” --— John Adams
The fear of loss is a path to the dark side.

Speaker 5

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. --Maslow
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! --Andrew Carnegie
If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.

Speaker 6

I find forgiveness to be really healthy. --Ben Affleck
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. --Aldous Huxley
The road to success is always under construction. --Arnold Palmer

Speaker 7

"The only essential difference between rock, water, air, life, galaxies, economies, civilizations, plastics is the rate of flow." --— Donovan Hohn
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” --— John Adams
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. --Jim Rohn

Speaker 1

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. --John Lennon
Honey, you never looked better
There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. --David Letterman

Speaker 2

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. --Benjamin Franklin
“If you allow the government to break the law and to violate your rights because of an emergency, what’s stopping them from creating an emergency to break the law?” --— James Harvey
If we talked about anything else, we might expose the fact that most of our arrogance is based on exploiting a fashionable alienation rather than on anything substantial. --Jhonen Vasquez, JTHM

Speaker 3

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.
You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood [...] back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which are changing all the time.

Speaker 4

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” --— Ingrid Bergman
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” --— Bill Watterson
Humor is healing. --Brad Garrett

Speaker 5

Get busy living or get busy dying.
Government should never be able to do anything you can't do.
Do not look outside yourself for the leader. For we are the ones we have been waiting for. --Except from “To My Fellow Swimmers” by the Elders of the Hopi Nation

Speaker 6

“If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something.” --— Steven Soderbergh
"When they study our civilization two thousand years from now, there will only be three things that Americans will be known for: the Constitution, baseball, and jazz music. They're the three most beautiful things Americans have ever created.” --— Gerald Early
"Shallow men believe in luck or circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. --— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speaker 7

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles. --Charles Chaplin
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. --Buddha
I’m bad, and that’s good. I will never be good, and that’s not bad. There’s no one I’d rather be than me

Speaker 1

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. --Ken Blanchard
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. --Ken Kesey
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. --Galileo Galilei

Speaker 2

"The audience loves a slow thinker.” --— Buster Keaton
Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. --Chinese Proverb
It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life that ultimately nourish our souls. --Fred Rogers

Speaker 3

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay. --Bob Dylan
If you allow the government to break the law because of an emergency, they'll always create an emergency to break the law. --Alexandra Lains
"Whenever things go wrong, people turn to an -ism. Fascism, Communism... Why don't they think of Americanism?” --— Lionel Barrymore in You Can't Take It With You

Speaker 4

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. --Aristotle
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. --James Freeman Clarke
“The right to vote has no impact. You can change the future of a nation more by how you raise one child.” --— GK Chesterton

Speaker 5

“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.” --— Mary Kay Ash
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in everything.” --— Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
Love and success, always in that order. It's that simple AND that difficult. --Fred Rogers

Speaker 6

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. --Aldous Huxley
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” --— Albert Einstein Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. --Andy Warhol

Speaker 7

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. --Marcus Aurelius
Lost time is never found again. --Benjamin Franklin
“You can’t tell a young person over and over again that the only thing that makes them unique is the evil they’ve done. They will grow to resent you and then inflict even more evil because you’ve told them that the evil they’ve done is what gives their existence meaning.” --— Chloe S. Valdary

Speaker 1

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. --Ken Blanchard
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. --Ken Kesey
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. --Galileo Galilei

Speaker 2

"The audience loves a slow thinker.” --— Buster Keaton
Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. --Chinese Proverb
It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life that ultimately nourish our souls. --Fred Rogers

Speaker 3

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay. --Bob Dylan
If you allow the government to break the law because of an emergency, they'll always create an emergency to break the law. --Alexandra Lains
"Whenever things go wrong, people turn to an -ism. Fascism, Communism... Why don't they think of Americanism?” --— Lionel Barrymore in You Can't Take It With You

Speaker 4

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. --Aristotle
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. --James Freeman Clarke
“The right to vote has no impact. You can change the future of a nation more by how you raise one child.” --— GK Chesterton

Speaker 5

“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.” --— Mary Kay Ash
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in everything.” --— Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
Love and success, always in that order. It's that simple AND that difficult. --Fred Rogers

Speaker 6

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. --Aldous Huxley
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” --— Albert Einstein Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. --Andy Warhol

Speaker 7

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. --Marcus Aurelius
Lost time is never found again. --Benjamin Franklin
“You can’t tell a young person over and over again that the only thing that makes them unique is the evil they’ve done. They will grow to resent you and then inflict even more evil because you’ve told them that the evil they’ve done is what gives their existence meaning.” --— Chloe S. Valdary