Category: Quotes

“You are 8 notches above perfection!”

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This was a quote from Lil C on the 8th season of So You Think You Can Dance.

Lil C is always so eloquent and I am sure he has been quoted ad nauseam.  He is quite the poet.  But, this quote touched me in particular.

I feel like there is nothing that I have ever done in my year on this earth that is “8 notches above perfection”.  No one has every said or even considered something I have done any where near the 1’st notch, let alone the 8th.  Worst yet, there is nothing that I have done myself that would make me say that about myself.  And, really that is what is important.  Not that I am striving for perfection.  I am striving to be proud of myself.  To me, that is perfection.  All levels of perfection.

Now I know what your saying.  You are being to hard on yourself.  You need to work on your self esteem.  There are people in this world that love you.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah blah blah!   I know and that is all great, but what I am striving for here is bigger then that.

I want to participate in something that I am proud of and where I will achieve that level of perfection that I am talking about.  I want to participate in life.  That is the first step.

In love, in relationships, in my career, in my life, I don’t think I have started to participate.  I have no idea what that person felt like hearing that said about something that she did.  I can only imagine.  I bet that she probably felt proud of herself.  She felt accomplished.  She felt that her hard work had paid off. She felt like all the sacrifices, all the shit that she put up  with him her life where so worth it at that moment.  And, she probably enjoyed the moment then pushed herself even more to feel that way again.  She participated.   I have never done any of that . . . yet!!

So, I have decided right here and now to participate.  I know what I want to do and I have the imagination and the drive to know what I want to achieve in my life.  In all aspects of my life.  Now I am ready to participate in order to achieve those things.  I feel that I can achieve perfection just by being a player in the game.  No more sitting and watching it happen to others. Or worse yet, sitting around other who don’t have the same drive.  Mediocrity is unacceptable.  I am striving for more in every category of my life.

I want to be 8 notches above perfection.  I want to see what life feel like from that height.

 

“My mind is full of you.”

 

 

TV Show – Pan Am, Character – Niko (Yugoslavian National who the CIA is trying to turn into a double agent) says it to Pan Am stewardess Laura. So romantic.

A show about Pan Am stewardess in the 1960’s. It is a really good show. Very old school acting and sexy and romantic. The love sense just make me smile. Really well done and bug eyed Christina Ricci as the trouble maker Maggie is really quite good. I don’t usually like Christina Ricci. The captain of the plane, Dean Lowrey, played by Mike Vogel is absolutely gorgeous in all the ways a man can be gorgeous.

Admiration/Criticism

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“My admiration of one thing is not a direct criticism of another.  There is room in my heart to like/love them both.” – Me

How many times have you heard someone say that they love someones dress only to think to your self, well, why don’t they like my dress. Or, have you heard someone say that they are a great manager and think to your self, They must think I am an awful manager.  I am guilty of it to.

Just because someone admires something in front of you doesn’t mean they are secretly criticising you for that same thing.  Often times, please who exclaim they admire something is just that.  They like something.  Not inspite of something else.

Just because I say he is a good golf instructor doesn’t mean I don’t think you are good either. Just like because you say you need to hire a manager doesn’t mean I am a bad manager.

Please say things all the time and it is frutile to start thinking what people mean by what they say.  You start doing that and you automatically are going to think the worst because that is what people do.

Next time  you hear someone praise someone else, especially when it is something that is dear to you, say to yourself that it has nothing to do with me.  More times then not it doesn’t.  Don’t look more into what they say beyond the words that actually come out of their mouth.

Or, you could think of it as you are good at that something as well and that is what the person is comparing it to.  It is because of your talents that someone has the ability to recognize what is good.  I can measure who is a dancer, speaker, manager, friend, boyfriend, lover.  Because you set such a good example.  Why even consider the alternative.  That is a more positive and personal inspiring way to look at the things that people say.

But, remember, you are good, kind, funny, smart, attractive and nice person. And so are you!!!