“Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.” ThinkingWritingI CanHardDonePastLife IsThreeBitsCan DoGoneFiveMaterialsAnxietyJokesPressureCome UpRelaxScreenplaysI Can Do ItParalyzed Author:Steve Martin
“What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.” NeedsDonePastNextCan DoDetermine Author:Ken Robinson
“It doesn't matter who you were or what you've done in the past. The only thing that matters is who you are right now.” MatterDonePastRight NowWho You AreThings That MatterOnly Thing That Matters Book:Wide Awake Boxset Source: Wide Awake Boxset
“Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin.” DoneAmericaPastCultureSinTaxesOriginalsParksThemeNativeGood TimesNative AmericanHaving A Good TimeExoticPropsNorth AmericaOriginal SinAnthropologistsTheme Parks Book:Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
“I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.” WarDonePastHouseHistoryMilitaryAwardsLooking ForwardMonarchy Author:Garth Brooks