Vince Poscente quotes

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
-- Vince Poscente

#Nature #Lakes #Feet

Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.
-- Vince Poscente

#Growing Up #Long #Tanks

Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders.
-- Vince Poscente

#Life #Change #Accountability

We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.
-- Vince Poscente

#Bumps #Difficulty #Defined

Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
-- Vince Poscente

#Motivation #Honest #Advise

It's not how much you do, it's how often you do it. It simply doesn't matter if you make some monumental effort at any given time. You have it in your to give that extra little bit. You know that you could add that finishing touch. You know you can take that extra step.
-- Vince Poscente

#Giving #Effort #Finishing

The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious.
-- Vince Poscente

#Children #Fun #Lessons

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.

Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.

The lake of fire awaits my lady

Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.

What are you doing?" "I'm going to enjoy a long overdue make-out session with my girl. That's what I'm doing." I explained, stepping into the room and closing the door behind me with one shove of my foot.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.