Blake Heard Quotes

• "The only way to succeed is to burn the boats" - Kurt Busch - 1/29/25 in ICS80
• "The goal is to build a Smarter Hillbilly" - Rodney Sichel
• "I need forearms big enough to strangle someone and a neck big enough to not get strangled" - Owen Reiss
• "You know what they say, if you sleep with an itchy butt, youll wake up with a stinky finger." - Maxwell Burger
• "I thought what a fool would think and it's fool proof" - Andrew Ashman
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Quotes

• "As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness." /  "As a dog eats its own vomit, so fools recycle silliness. / Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly" (Proverbs 26:11)
• "The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct.” (Confucius)
• "Everything I do is for the 17-year-old version of myself" - Virgil Abloh
• "Neutral men are the Devil's allies." - Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• "But how you the devil rebukin the sin" - Violent Crimes - Old Kanye West
• "Everyone wanted to know what I would do if I didnt win. I guess we'll never know." - Kanye West
• “maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle,” - Elon Musk
• "Congratulations. You achieved Failure. Failure has been achieved. Thank God. Now the only place to go from failure, is to win. You have to achieve failure. You have to take it that far. Nobody wants to go that far, its too scary. But you know something, I got news for ya, thats where winning is. It always has been, nothings changed since the 70's. Nothing. Except people train not as hard." - Tom Platz
• "From the bottom, so the top's the only place to go now." - Two Words Freestyle by Kanye West
• "Common sense is not so common" - Voltaire
• "it aint happen yet, and thats what intuition is" - I wonder - Old Kanye West
• "everyone thinks your lazy. dont let them" - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - Bodymap
• "By Any Means Necessary" - Supreme
• "I have trodden the winepress alone; from the nations no one was with me. I trampled them in my anger and trod them down in my wrath; their blood spattered my garments, and I stained all my clothing." - Isaiah 63:3
• "There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing." - Oscar Wilde
• "If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable" - Seneca
• "History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill
• "God created men, Colt made them equal." - Samuel Colt
• "Youre a bad employee and a worse boss" - Jordan Peterson
• "Luck is something you create" - Virgil Abloh
• "I sought my death and found it in my womb" - [My prime of youth is but a frost of cares] By Chidiock Tichborne
• "The field mouse runs fast, but the owl sees at night." - Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
• “He who seeks revenge digs two graves" - Confucius
• "God is in heaven. All's right with the world." - NERV 
• "Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny." - Aristotle
• "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." - Matthew 6:34
• "as a man thinks in his heart, so is he" - Proverbs 23:7
• "And I say that if a rhetorician and a physician were to go to any city, and had there to argue in the Ecclesia or any other assembly as to which of them should be elected state-physician, the physician would have no chance; but he who could speak would be chosen if he wished; and in a contest with a man of any other profession the rhetorician more than any one would have the power of getting himself chosen, for he can speak more persuasively to the multitude than any of them, and on any subject." - Plato - Gorgias 456 (b-c)
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Concepts

• 80/20 aka Pareto Principle by Vilfredo Pareto
• The Theory of Constraints (TOC) by Eliyahu M. Goldratt.
• "Luck is when Preparation Meets Opportunity" - Tom Platz  
• Quantity Over Quality - for quality comes with repetition  
• SWOT Anaylsis
• "Weak Connection" Link in terms of expanding a network, you should always have at least 1 weak link your working on to expand your network - mgmt 102 @ uci
• Shiny Object Syndrome
• Analysis paralysis
• "People remember 7% of what you say, 38% of how you say it (tone), and 55% of your body language."
  — Based on a study by Albert Mehrabian
• Sign up, Show up, Follow up, Step up" - Sam Cooke at LEADS
• Persuasion is the best Superpower - Plato
• UNDONE "Blake" CONCEPT: Roughly ' been thinking about the important of Questions and question structuring. Most of the time your mind has an answer, and if it doesnt then youre not asking the right question. If youre not doing something right or youre confused or want to do better and cant find the answer, then you currently have the wrong question. -- This tags along with the training of subconscious rather than the conscious and the implications of getting answers from the subconscious instantly and how every question is/should be answered instantly -- a mix between "Quality Questions is a Quality Life" mixed with "Subconsious Solving"  
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Inspirational People + Their Best Trait

• Virgil Abloh - Creator of Pyrex Vision, Later Becoming Off White + Mens Director of LV 
• Elon Musk - For the mindset of what can be done tomorrow, today.
• Old Kanye West - Thinking in 4D and believing anything is possible
• Tom Platz - Luck comes from men of action
• Jesus - The bible was rad
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