What Are the Odds?
Not that I expect ticket sales to go down — but stop with phone fiddling while driving!
Thinking
What They Think
So many waste so much time and energy over what others think about them. Don’t worry about it until you already place value in their opinions.
The Producers
“I was number one five years in a row at the box office. But what’s really stunning is that no one until me had ever gone from number one to number 38 in one year.” —Reynolds in 2005.
Choosy Mothers
Even if vaccines did cause autism (and they don’t!), they’d still be worth it: the odds of severe disability or death are much higher than the fake risk.
Book Learnin’
Obviously this sort of thing had come up during dinner conversations before! They helped me pronounce it, and I’ve remembered it since.
Ya Gotta Believe
I’ve seen it attributed to Kurt Vonnegut. Supposedly the full context is….
Funk’s First Observation
Andy Funk is an Emmy-award-winning broadcast engineer. His observation is 20/20 (or maybe 20/15), but now I want to know what his second observation is!
Just Do It
Well of course they were scared and felt outside their “comfort zone.” They just did it anyway. If your goal doesn’t scare you at least a little, it’s not a big enough goal.
What Could Go Wrong?
Don’t tempt the Universe. Last year was bad? Maybe, but don’t overlook that there was plenty of good, too. (Photo: The Sombrero Galaxy, Hubble Space Telescope/STScI.)
Always In the Budget
Just the holidays? Nope: just a reminder that you should be doing this all the time.