Straight Talk Uncut on the hustle of life, the hustle of the creative

STU share clips from an interview of David Goggins by Rich Roll

What to expect on Fitness Friday

Thoughts about a documentary that I watched. Ronnie Coleman the KING

I started the year off with an almost 48 hour fast. Was it easy?

“The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.” -Zig Ziglar

"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end." -Aristotle

"Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire." -Napoleon Hill

"Satisfied is just another word for I quit" -Unknown

"Every intention is a trigger for transformation." -Deepak Chopra

"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime." -James Russell Lowell

Mastery passes often for egotism. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor." -Henry Ford

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.” -Unknown

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” ― Henry David Thoreau

"Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety." -Aesop

"We Cannot Direct the Wind, But We Can Adjust the Sails" -Unknown

"The man who wants to do something, finds a way. The other, finds an excuse." - Unknown

"We want to be first. Not first if. Not first but. But, first. J.F.K

Everyone wants to be a Lion But no one wants to do Lion shit - Unknown

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. Orison Swett Marden

"Willpower is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce." -Cesare Pavese

"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads." -Charles Caleb Colton

"Talk does not cook rice." – Chinese proverb

"Willful waste brings woeful want." -Thomas Fuller

"I accept reality and dare not question it." -Walt Whitman

"A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet." -German proverb

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." -Eleanor Roosevelt

“The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.” ―Anonymous

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." -Chinese Proverb Sorry about the audio on this one. Shorter video version tv.straighttalkuncut.com

"I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out." -Visvesvaraya

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it." -Edgar Allan Poe

·Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby." -Rumi

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.” -William Blake

·You are going to feel dumb and stupid but that just goes with the territory.· ·Les Brown

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” -Sun Tzu

"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." -W. C. Fields

"In order to get what you've always wanted, you have to be willing to do what you've never done." -Some profound person

"A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone." -Robert Kiyosaki

"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy." -Isaac Newton

" Wake up motivated. Not everybody made it to today, so don't take your time for granted." -Anonymous

"Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre." -Chet Atkins

"Well done is better than well said." -Benjamin Franklin

"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos." -David Cronenberg

“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

"Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"The goal you set has to be bigger than what you're risking or you won't follow through" -Don't Know

"The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin." -Scott Peck

“We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.” -M. Scott Peck

"Don't set sail using someone else's star." -African Proverb

"Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth." -Bradley Whitford