Michael

STEM without arts is how we get cybertrucks and bitcoin.

If I should go before the rest of you
Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone
Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice
But be the usual selves that I have known
Weep if you must
Parting is Hell
But life goes on
So sing as well.
-Joyce Grenfell

Ikagai: The intersection between what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs and what you can be paid for.

Happy people encourage, attractive people compliment, and successful people support.

“Do I really want it? Or do I want others to see that I have it?”

Do it scared. You’re almost there.

Whatever you allow your government to do to others they will eventually do to you.

One day, everyone will have always been against this.

“Family pathology rolls from generation to generation like a fire in the woods taking down everything in its path until one person in one generation has the courage to face the flames. That person brings peace to his ancestors and spare the children that follow.”-Terrence Real

“90% of male rage is helplessness disguised as frustration.” - Peter Attia

“What a privilege to be overwhelmed by growth you used to dream about. What a privilege to be challenged by a life you created on purpose.” -Atreyu Moniaga

“Everyone wants healing until medicine shows up in the form of discipline.” -Hippocrates

The feeling you get when your parents got you that action figure at KB Toys and you stare at the back of the box the entire car ride home.

What if it’s not about being the best, or making the best cutting edge thing? What if it’s about getting to work with the best people?

Nature is free.

The hangman goes as far as you let him.

“Remember the Jesus you introduced me to. The one who told the truth even when it cost him everything. The one who never sacrificed children, women, or the poor on the alter of anybody else’s “great again.”

Do the impossible, see the invisible.

“Don’t make sense. Make sensation.” -mindlesslymatthew

“Principals only matter when you stick to them when it’s inconvenient.”

“Love isn’t something that weak people do.” -Fleabag

The adjective for metal is metallic, but no for iron, which is ironic.

"The establishment will irritate you to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, they know how to handle you. They don't know how to handle non-violence and humor." - John Lennon

“He who has a why to live for can bear most any how.” -nietzsche

“Money is the tool, not the goal. The goal is freedom. Remember that.” -vonne hart

“If artists thrive, then culture changes and if culture changes, power shifts.” -Luana Creative Liberation

“Listen to me, you are not a person, you are an experience. Make sure you are a good experience.” -Garnet, Steven universe

“You’re never going to feel ready because ready isn’t a feeling, it’s a decision.”

“You need power only when you want to do something harmful; otherwise love is enough to get everything done.” -Charlie Chaplin

“Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; the long that ignorance is persisted in the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.” -Huxley