Token Reminders "That way when you look at your totem, you know beyond a doubt you're not in someone else's dream." - Arthur, Inception
You Aren't Listening "The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply." - Stephen R. Covey
Life 2.0 “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” - Charles Bukowski
Finding Your Superpower "Now you wanna get nuts?! Come on. Let's get nuts!" - Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), Batman
Manage The Moments "You mustn’t be afraid to dream up little bigger, darling." - Eames (Tom Hardy), Inception
Leaving Things Better "You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to." – Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting
Surface v Depth "I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling." - David Lynch
The Good Gets Better "We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow." - Seneca
Mental Laziness "All those moments will be lost in time... Like tears in rain." - Roy Batty, Blade Runner
Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable "I'm not a psychopath, Anderson. I'm a high functioning sociopath. Do your research." - Sherlock
Random Acts "You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it." ― Jordan B. Peterson
Admit You're Wrong "No one ever made a difference by being like everybody else." – P.T. Barnum, from The Greatest Showman
Forget What You Know "The Problem Is Not The Problem. The Problem Is Your Attitude About The Problem." - Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
How Do You Measure Success? "The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care." - Peter Gibbons, Office Space
In Search Of "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." - Hunter Thompson
A Work In Progress "I want to know what's wrong with the street. See, I don't think anything's wrong with the street." - Bill Foster, Falling Down
The Magic Roundabout "I don't know. Just trying to understand why we keep making the same mistakes... over and over." - Luisa Rey, Cloud Atlas
Facing the Struggle "Parkinson’s disease is the gift that keeps on taking. But it truly has been a gift." - Michael J. Fox
Too Many Empty Calories "Once a man has seen, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend it doesn’t exist. No matter who orders him to look the other way" - Rorschach, The Watchmen
I Came In Like A Wrecking Ball "Some Men Just Want To Watch The World Burn" - Alfred, The Dark Knight
When The Cost Is Just Too High "Stop trying to control everything and just let go!" - Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Up Is Down "All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
The Problem Is You're Solving The Wrong Problem "The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?" - Jack Sparrow
All The Little Things "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance"
Maybe It's Your Attitude The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Finding Your Voice “You must strive to find your own voice, boys, and the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
When The Cup Runneth Over "You may think this is suffering, no. It is salvation. The universal scale tips toward balance because of your sacrifice. Smile."
What Was and What Will Be "You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There is a saying: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."
With Constraint Find Freedom "Yeah, Well, You Know, That's Just, Like, Your Opinion, Man." - The Dude, Big Lebowski
Lets Boil Some Frogs "Just because you haven’t found your talent yet doesn’t mean you do not have one." -Kermit The Frog
Not A Meal, But A Gathering "Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life." - Anthony Bourdain
It's That Simple "We really never lose our demons. We only learn to rise above them." - Ancient One, Doctor Strange
There's Just Too Much Crap "Time is the stuff that when you spend it, you don’t get it back." - Mark, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
The Weakness Remains "Your strength has returned. But the weakness still remains. And that is why you will always lose." - Darth Vader, ObiWan Ep 6
The Rough Edges "All right! We did not die today. I call that an unqualified success." — Fear, Inside Out
A Change Of Perspective "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusion to gain control" - Mr. Robot
Not Everything is Urgent 'What is urgent is seldom important and what is important is seldom urgent.' - Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Secret of Asking for Help “Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.” ― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Crushing Weights "Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible" - Cloud Atlas
Perceptions and Reality "What (if) we perceive isn't the real world at all, but just our mind's best guess? That all we really have is a garbled reality, a truly fuzzy picture we will never make out?" - Elliot, Mr. Robot
The Art of Self Destruction "Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer." - Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Two Simple Ideas "The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?" - Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
Surprising Things About Boredom "I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.'" — A Man Without A Country, Vonnegut
Feed Your Focus “I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just… DO things.” - Joker, The Dark Knight
Circling the Drain “We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.” - Dr. Manhattan
Breathe "Hey! Hey! Relax. Take a deep breath. Now, let's ask somebody for directions." - Dory, Finding Nemo
The Plateau “There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” -Bruce Lee
House of Pain "Big things often have small beginnings." - David, Prometheus (or T.E. Lawrence in Lawerence of Arabia)
Artifical Constraints "When the night is over, like a bat out of hell, I'll be gone, gone, gone" - Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell
Don’t Do It “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.” – Fight Club, Tyler Durden
The Games We Play “The game is tailored specifically to each participant. Think of it as a great vacation, except you don't go to it, it comes to you.” - The Game
The Big Dark "Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it." - Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Continuity "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." - Kurt Vonnegut
An Intentional Life "Have you found joy in your life? Has your life brought joy to others?" - Carter Chambers, The Bucket List
Consistently Flexible "It is not our abilities that show what we truly are… It is our choices" – Dumbledore
It's About Time "Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine... Out of a DeLorean?" - Marty McFly, Back to the Future
Who Over What “There’s a starman waiting in the sky; He’d like to come and meet us; But he thinks he’d blow our minds” - David Bowie, Starman
Personal Mission Statement “The code is more what you’d call 'guidelines' than actual rules.” – Barbossa
Good Times, Bad Times "You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to." - Robin Williams
What is... "No, no, no, no.. I'm sorry... I am so, so sorry...." - Dr Strange Supreme, What If...? Episode 4
The Empathy Machine The movies are like a machine that generates empathy... It helps us to identify with the people who are sharing this journey with us" - Roger Ebert
The Hardest Part "That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run." - Forrest Gump
This Train Don't Stop There Anymore "I used to be the main express, all steam and whistles heading west. Picking up my pain from door to door, riding on the storyline, furnace burning overtime.. But this train don't stop there anymore."
I Can See For Miles and Miles I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise; I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes
The Circle of Life "and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, til we find our place, on the path unwinding"
Be a Goldfish "You know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It’s a goldfish. You know why? Got a ten-second memory. Be a goldfish, Sam." - Ted Lasso
The One About Food and People "I don't have to agree with you to like or respect you." - Anthony Bourdain
Harmony and The Field "We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is." - Kurt Vonnegut
Your Move Chief "You don’t have the faintest idea what you’re talking about." - Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting
The Resilient Parasite "Once An Idea Has Taken Hold Of The Brain, It’s Almost Impossible To Eradicate" - Cobb, Inception
The Woodsmen "This is the water and this is the well. Drink full." - The Woodsmen in Twin Peaks, Season 3
The Path "There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path." -Morpheus, The Matrix
All That Glitters is Gold "When all is one and one is all, that's what it is; To be a rock and not to roll, oh yeah; And she's buying a stairway to heaven"
Everlong "And I wonder when I sing along with you, If everything could ever feel this real forever, If anything could ever be this good again."
Did You Chop Down This Tree? “A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.” — The Lorax
The Rot of Memory “ I have been a voice with no body. A body, but not human. And now a memory made real. Who knows what I might be next?”
Rising tides “There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.” — Morpheus, The Matrix
Beautiful Polished Rocks "You can't come up with a formula to change the way you experience the world." - A Beautiful Mind
Constant Reinvention “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Little Things “Big things have small beginnings” Little things add up to big ones over time. Often “boil the ocean” projects that attempt to make huge course corrections, cultural changes, or technology shifts in an organization (or life, for that matter). But I think the biggest lesson that I’ve taken from
The Last of the Mohicans Death and honor are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.
Strange Days "I am your main connection to the switchboard of the soul. I'm the magic man... Santa Claus of the subconscious."
Play Chess, Not Checkers You want my king, you got to come get my king. All these other pieces are just the means to do it.
The Bucket Live like you’re already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you. — Jeff Bridges
Sleep Our dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake we realize things were strange.
The Shawshank Redemption Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes, really. Pressure and time.
Inception Do You Want To Take A Leap Of Faith Or Become An Old Man Filled With Regret Waiting To Die Alone?
Cloud Atlas I don't know. Just trying to understand why we keep making the same mistakes... over and over.
Social Distancing Edition That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.
Almost Famous “The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool."
Thread Reader Automation I often hear people complain that Twitter is total chaos. To be honest, I really enjoy using it daily as a source of technology discovery, but it didn’t really become effective and under control until I started to move people off my timeline and into curated “lists”. For example,