-Virtue isn't entertainment and has no use for applause.
-Politeness is the origin of the virtues; fidelity their principle; prudence their precondition.
-You will be loved the day when you will be able to show your weakness without the person using it to assert his strength.
-Love that takes is impure; loves that gives or contemplates is pure.
-Gratitude rejoices in what has taken place or in what is.
-From the 16th century humanity has entered on a vast unifying process, which in our days has reached its further limits.
-The health of democracies, of whatever type and range, depends on a technical detail, electoral procedure. All the rest is secondary.
-The world today is suffering from a grave demoralization which among other symptoms, manifests itself by an extraordinary rebellion of the masses, and has its origin in the demoralization of Europe.
-Europe has been left without a moral code. There is the aspiration to live without conforming to any moral code.
-Every man who adopts a serious attitude before his own existence and makes himself fully responsible for it will feel a certain kind of insecurity which urges him to keep ever on the alert.
-We are what out worlds invites us to be, and the basic features of our soul are impressed upon it by the form of its surroundings as in a mold.
-Our life is no other than our relations with the world around.
-Contrary to what it is usually thought. it is the man of excellence, and not the common man who lives in essential servitude.
-As one advances in life, one realizes more and more that the majority of men and women are incapable of any other effort than that strictly imposed on them as a reaction to external compulsion. For that reason, the few individuals we have come across who are capable of a spontaneous and joyous effort stand out isolated, monumentalised, so to speak, in our experience. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving.
-European civilization has brought about the rebellion of the masses.
-The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe.
-The mass crashes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select.
-Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.
-We are living under the brutal empire of the masses.
-The element of terror in the destiny of our time is furnished by the overwhelming and violent moral upheaval of the masses, imposing, invincible, and treacherous, as is destiny in every case.
-The masses are today exercising functions in social life which coincide with those which hitherto seemed reserved to minorities.
-These masses have at the same time shown themselves indocile to the minorities: they do not obey them, follow them, or respect them; on the contrary, they push them aside and supplant them.
-To form a minority, of whatever kind, it is necessary beforehand that each member separate himself from the multitude for special, relatively personal, reasons.
-The mass is all that which sets no value on itself, good or ill, based on specific grounds, but which feels itself 'just like everybody', and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.
-For there is no doubt that the most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection; mere buoys that float on the waves.
-The division of society into masses and select minorities is, then, not a division into social classes, but into classes of men.
-A characteristic of our times is the predominance, even in groups traditionally selective, of the mass and the vulgar.
-Public life is not solely political, but equally, and even primarily, intellectual, moral, economic, religious; it comprises all our collective habits, including our fashions both of dress and of amusement.
-To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
-Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.
-This faculty of wonder is the one which leads the intellectual man through life in the perpetual ecstasy of the visionary.
-Society is always a dynamic unity of two component factors: minorities and masses.
-The minorities are the individuals or groups of individuals which are specially qualified. The mass is the average man.
-The normal formation of a multitude implies the coincidence of desires, ideas, ways of life, in the individuals who constitute it.
Your heart... your beautiful heart... are you listening to it? Listen... it is whispering... calmly and patiently... Put your heart at the core of everything... Your mind will get in balance with that precious jewel in connection to your soul...
Breath with your heart... Speak with your heart... Look with your heart... Dream with your heart... Hope with you heart... Wait with your heart...
When we yield to the kingdom of our heart, magic will overtake the dance in our souls...
Feel it!!!!! Feel it with your whole heart!!! Once you let yourself be embarked on that journey, there is no turning back... you are on your road to your eternity!
"Cometer errores y no perder la confianza, sobre todo. No hay lugar para la frustración tras los errores. No sólo los tuyos, sino también los de los compañeros. Hoy no cuenta nada. Aunque en un momento dado, uno te puede joder, no importa. Hay que seguir, hay que arreglarlo, hay que aconsejarlo, hay que animarlo. ¿Vale? En un partido donde habrá dificultades, donde habrá un equipo duro delante, donde habrá errores, tuyos y de tus compañeros, y lo único que cuenta es que entremos en la zona donde sabemos competir mejor que cualquiera y donde tenemos la cabeza bien puesta para ganar el partido mejor que cualquiera. Eso es lo que hay que hacer, ¿vale?.
(Todo el grupo). ¡Venga! ¡Venga! ¡Venga!
Hoy es el día. Rebote, defensa. Nos ayudamos. ¡Vamos!
"En la vida siempre hay cambios. Cambias de coche, cambias de casa, cambias de país. Cambias de forma de ver la vida. El tiempo pasa. En el deporte también hay cambios. Unos van y otros vienen. No es negativo. En realidad, es un reto. Resulta interesante demostrar de lo que eres realmente capaz. Siempre hay cambios, es verdad. Aunque cuando la esencia es perfecta, el cambio perfecto es modificar todo sin que cambie nada."
Marc Gasol. La Familia. Intro del Capítulo V.
Raúl. "Mi colaboración con Ricky surge de un mensaje que me mando él en su día. Bueno, para ver si podíamos trabajar juntos en verano.
Yo creo que, de lo que, en este caso, yo puedo estar un poco más satisfecho, es de hacerle ver, que él se diera cuenta, de que podía llegar a este nivel. Que, en ese caso, él entendiera, que era mucho mejor jugador de lo que él creía que era en ese momento.
Donde entrenábamos, había un sitio en la pista que ponía: Next, MVP. Y no era el sitio más normal para tirar en esa pista, pero me gustaba que tirara desde ahí para tener la sensación de que él pudiese conectar algo ahí.
Ricky. "Tu puedes seguir siendo la misma persona humilde, pero creyéndote todo de lo que eres capaz. Y creo que fue un poco lo que Raúl abrió esa puerta. Y con él, con esa confianza, jugué todo el mundial. No es que mejore el tiro. Lo que mejoro es la confianza. Y eso, es algo que, en gran parte, siempre le estaré agradecido a Raúl.
Pero de todos los entrenos, él último me quiso hacer una cosa que es: lee lo que pone. Pone: Next: MVP. Créetelo. Porque este año vas a ser el MVP.
"La vida es mucho más que sólo deporte.
¡Uno, dos, tres, muro!
Esta historia puede inspirar a mucha gente a afrontar el día a día y los baches que hay en la vida.
A veces nos preguntan en qué se basa el éxito de este grupo. Convencerse de que es posible es el primer paso para alcanzar lo que deseas.
Hemos disfrutado como niños pequeños. Un grupo de deportistas convertidos en niños que juegan como si siguiesen siendo niños y quieren cumplir sus sueños de niños.
Los éxitos son importantes pero lo interesante es ir más allá. Demostrar una lección de vida. Es el paso que dan las leyendas. ¿Que si la familia es leyenda? No nos toda responder eso a nosotros. A nosotros nos toca seguir votando, seguir defendiendo, seguir anotando y seguir soñando.
"Mi madre nunca más va a estar a mi lado. Lo que le pasó a Rudy y todo, nunca más estarán a su lado. Pero podemos aprender y ser como la memoria de la gente que estuvo y nos hizo ser lo que somos.
Berges Puyo, J. (2020). A Value and Character Educational Model: Repercussions for Students, Teachers, and Families. Journal of Culture and Values in Education, 4(1), 100-115. https://doi.org/10.46303/jcve.2020.7
Un árabe dijo a su padre: Estoy asombrado, pues he leído que en tiempos pasados, la gente de espíritu y los sabios eran venerados, mientras que ahora, solo los aduladores son honrados. Entonces el padre: No te asombres, hijo mío, si los clérigos tienen veneración por los clérigos, los nobles por los nobles, la gente de espíritu por la gente de espíritu, los aduladores lo tengan por los aduladores. Y el hijo: He notado otra cosa : los clérigos no son honrados por su sabiduría; es porque se han convertido en aduladores y han recibido grandes honores. Entonces el padre le dijo: A eso tiende la estupidez de nuestra época. Entonces el hijo: Dame, padre muy querido, la verdadera definición de la nobleza. Y el padre: Es aquella que recuerda Aristóteles en la carta que escribió al rey Alejandro, quien le había preguntado a quién elegir entre los hombres para hacerlo su consejero, y él le le respondió así en una carta: Toma a alguno que está instruido en las siete artes liberales, que está práctico en las siete pericias, que se haya formado en las siete reglas de conducta: yo pienso que esa es la verdadera nobleza. Entonces el hijo: Esa nobleza no existe en nuestra época: toda la nobleza que veo es la del oro y de la plata, como dice el poeta: Aquellos desprovistos de nobleza se vanaglorian de su tesoro, y la pobreza humilla a la alta nobleza. Un poeta ha escrito sobre las desgracias del siglo que afectan a los nobles, y en las palabras propias de ellos he aquí estos versos: Dile a aquellos que nos menosprecian debido a las desgracias que nos afligen, que este siglo no ha afectado a nadie mas que a los nobles. No ves que el mar lleva en la superficie los desechos y la paja, mientras que las piedras preciosas caen al abismo? Y no ves que hay en el cielo estrellas de las que ignoramos el nombre? Y sin embargo ninguna de entre ellas experimenta un eclipse, con excepción del sol y de la luna? Y el padre agrega: Es a causa de la estupidez de la época que los hombres piensan que uno debe alabar solo las riquezas.
Mamba mentality
1. Passion.
2. Obsession.
3. Relentlessness.
4. Resilience.
5. Fearlessness.
"El gran error es adaptarse. El matrimonio destruye el amor, la posesión mata el deseo, el conocimiento aniquila el placer; el hábito, la novedad; la destreza, la conciencia. Ser el eterno forastero, el eterno aprendiz: he ahí una fórmula para ser feliz".
Julio Ramón Ribeyro
«Estabas muy cerca. Sólo
nos separaban diez ríos,
tres idiomas, dos fronteras:
-Habits+Deliberate practice = Mastery.
-Career Best Effort Program implemented by Pat Riley in the Lakers in the 80's. Stats divided by minutes played give you the coefficient of performance.
-The way to be successful is to learn how to do things right, then to do them the same way every time.
-Power of reflection and review.
-Improvement is not just about learning habits, it is also about fine-tuning them.
-You don't want to keep practicing a habit if it becomes ineffective.
-Around September of each year I conduct an Integrity report to revisit my core values and reflect on my identity and how I can work toward being the type of person I wish to become.
-Worrying too much about every daily choice is like looking at yourself in the mirror from an inch away.
-Periodic reflection and review is like viewing yourself in the mirror from a conversational distance. You can see the important changes you should make without losing sight of the bigger picture.
-Keep your identity small. The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you.
-Everything is impermanent.
-The holy grail of habit change is not a single one percent improvement, but a thousand of them.
-Gradually, as you continue to layer small changes on top of one another, the scales of life start to move. Each improvement is like adding a grain of sand to the positive side of the scale.
-Success is not a goal, it is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.
-The secret to getting results that last it to never stop making improvements.
-Happiness is the absence of desire.
-Peace occurs when you don't turn your observations into problems.
-Being curious is better than being smart.
-Emotions drive behavior.
-Reward is on the other side of sacrifice.
-Being poor is not having too little. It is wanting more.
-If your wants outpace your likes, you'll always be unsatisfied. Your are perpetually putting more weight on the problem than the solution.
-People are borne with different abilities.
-Genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
-How do I figure out where the odds are in my favor? How do I identify the opportunities and habits that are right for me? The first place we will look for an answer is by understanding your personality.
-When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different.
-What do the really successful people do that most don't? The ones who can handle the boredom of training every day.
-It all comes down to passion.
-The greatest threat to success is not failure, but boredom.
-You have to fall in love with boredom
-Stepping up when it's annoying or painful or draining to do so, that's what makes the difference between a professional and an amateur.
-When a habit is truly important to you, you have to be willing to stick to it in any mood.
-The secret is to always stay below the point where it feels like work.
-The best way to break a bad habit is to make it impractical to do.
-When the immediate consequence is favorable, the later consequences are disastrous, and vice versa.
-Incentives can start a habit. Identity sustains a habit.
-Show up and add to the streak.
-The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
-This is a distinguishing feature between winners and losers. Anyone can have a bad performance, a bad workout, or a bad day at work. But when successful people fail, they rebound quickly. The breaking of a habit doesn't matter if the reclaiming of it is fast.
-You don't realize how valuable it is to just show up on your bad days. Lost days hurt you more than successful days help you.
-Never interrupt it unnecessarily.
-Sluggish days and bad workouts maintain the compound gains you accrued from previous good days. Simply doing something, ten squats, five sprints, a push-up, anything really, is huge. Don't put up a zero. Don't let losses eat into your compounding.
-It's easy to train when you feel good, but it's crucial to show up when you don't feel like it. Going to the gym for five minutes may not improve your performance, but reaffirms your identity.
-When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
-It is the anticipation of the reward, not the fulfillment of it, that gets us to take action.
-Our friends and family provide a sort of invisible peer pressure that pulls us in their direction.
-Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You'll rise together.
-Humans everywhere pursue power, prestige and status.
-Saving money is often associated with sacrifice. However, you can associate it with freedom rather than limitation if you realize one simple truth: living below your current means increases your future means. The money you save this month increases your purchasing power next month.
-You can reframe 'I am nervous' to 'I am excited and I am getting an adrenaline rush to help me concentrate'.
-If you want to master a habit, the key is to start with repetition, not perfection.
-Habits form with frequency, not time.
-Habits are easier to build when they fit into the flow of your life.
-Create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible.
-The purpose of resetting each room is not simply to clean up after the last action, but to prepare for the next action.
-The greater the friction, the lest likely the habit.
-The point is to master the habit of showing up.
-Try, fail, learn, try differently.
-We can't always explain what it is we are learning, but learning is happening all along the way.
-You are much more than your conscious self.
-We must begin the process of behavior change with awareness.
-Many of our failures in performance are largely attributively to a lack of self-awareness.
-Does this behavior help me become the type of person I wish to be?
-Hearing your bad habits spoken aloud makes the consequences seem more real.
-A fresh start feels motivating.
-No behavior happens in isolation. Each action becomes a cue that triggers the next behavior.
-Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.
-Making a better decision is easy and natural when the cues for good habits are right in front of you.
-Environment design allows you to take back control and become the architect of your life. Be the designer of your world, and not merely the consumer of it.
-Habits can be easier to change in a different environment.
-Make the cues of your good habits obvious, and the cues of your bad habits invisible.
-Achieving a goal only changes your life for the moment. What we really need to change are the systems that cause those results.
-The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you will be to maintain the habits associated with it.
-True behavior change is identity change.
-Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
-What is the type of person that could get the outcome I want?
-The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
-You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone.
-Habits are not about having something. They are about becoming someone.
-I knew that if things were going to improve, I was the one responsible for making it happen.
-Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you are willing to stick with them for years.
-Anything wise in these pages you should credit to the many experts who preceded me. Anything foolish assume it is my error.
-If you broke down anything you know about riding a bicycle, and then improve it by 1 per cent, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together.
-If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you'll end up thirty seven times better by the time you're done.
-Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.
-You get what you repeat.
-Understanding the details is crucial.
-The score takes care of itself.
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox;
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,
and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,
and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence,
and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.
When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
