nothing witty

[darodgers5]

The family that rolls together stays together! #capitalmma #bjjwhitebelts

[darodgers5]

"Success is the ongoing process of striving to become more."

Anthony Robbins

[darodgers5]

Being clouded by insecurities is a massive vulnerability. They're going to hold you back in both business and in life, so please work through them.

Gary Vaynerchuck

[darodgers5]

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

– Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

[darodgers5]

If your work has never been criticized, it's unlikely you have any work. Creating work is the point, though, which means that in order to do something that matters, you're going to be criticized. If your goal is to be universally liked and respected and understood, then, it must mean your goal is to not do something that matters. Which requires hiding. Hiding, of course, isn't the point. Hence the paradox. You don't want to be criticized and you do want to matter. The solution: Create work that gets criticized. AND, have the discernment to tell the difference between useful criticism (rare and precious) and the stuff worth ignoring (everything else).

Seth Godin

[darodgers5]

I have been increasingly conscious, for the last 10 years or so, of deaths among my contemporaries. My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself. There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

Dr. Oliver Sacks

[darodgers5]

5 miles down before the sun is up. (at Naval Station Norfolk)

[darodgers5]

Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together. - Thomas Pynchon (at Norfolk International Airport)

[darodgers5]

Hikes always cleanse the soul.

[darodgers5]

Daisy is nice enough to be my training partner as I prepare to run the Marine Corps Marathon to raise funds for Fisher House. To learn more and to make a contribution visit my fundraising page at http://bit.ly/1TwN5nD to help me bring military families together. (at Virginia Beach, Virginia)

[darodgers5]

The boy and his clarinet.

[forbes]

50 Heavyweight Leadership Quotes

Some say leadership is an art. Some say leadership is a science. There are a lot of books written on the topic and a lot of approaches discussed. But there are also simple, yet powerful quotes that pack a punch and make us think about the true meaning of leadership. Here are a few.

[forbes]

America’s 25 Top Colleges With No Application Fees In 2015

We’ve combed through the Forbes list for the second year in a row and discovered a new crop of 25 highly-rated schools that don’t charge an application fee at all. See them all here.

[darodgers5]

Sophia for President! Because America!

[darodgers5]

The Navy has ensured one of these is always close by.

[darodgers5]

[stopdreamingstartflying]