#vinceloksquotes

[vincelok]

I don't have talent I have tenacity, you know. I have discipline, I have focus, and I know without any illusion where I come from and what I can go back to. And that's why I said a while ago in the 80s, I saw what was happening with money, I was watching it shift very quickly. I was watching the middle class go away--and I was a 23 year old maniac but I got it. And that's when I realized you better get plan b, c, d, e, f, and g, otherwise you're going to starve to death in the America. The America is not a place you live in, it's a video game that you that you survive. You know I'm not only an American I'm an Americanist. I survive America in spite of what it wants to do to people like me. And so, through saying yes to everything, realizing people like me have to write it three times and other people have to write it once, that I have to show up early because I'll probably get lost on the way to the location, and that I should probably watch, shut up, and learn rather than shoot my mouth off; I am where I am right now which is a vastly different position than I was 30 years ago 20 years ago and 10 years ago. So, it is basically a story of a lot of luck, but taking advantage of opportunity, working really damn hard knowing there was no choice for me but to work really hard. And that's it, and that's not a unique story. What was unique is I got to be in my favorite band, like they came to me and said “Hey we're auditioning people,” I was like[pauses, looks around dumbfounded, then raises hand]. Cause had they not plucked me out of Washington DC, a great town, what would have happened to me? Uhh I probably would have gone to work for my friends record store which would have eventually folded-- which it did it went away. And then what I would have done? I don't know maybe gotten some female pregnant and been a young dad, I don't know. You know, the America would have happened to me. And so I got a lucky break, but at least I did something with it. The repeating factors of my life have been application, discipline, focus, repetition-- You know a gig, a gig, a gig. what are you doing tomorrow? Eight o'clock on stage. What’re you doing the night after? I'll be on stage. What about two months from now? I'll be still on that same tour because I manage myself. I know where I'm going. I might not finish it, I might not survive it, but I'm the one bookin it.

Henry Rollins: The One Decision That Changed My Life Forever

Big think Podcast accessed via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkvEpoqFx6c

[vinceallover]

First, much of vector Calculus was invented for use in electromagnetic theory and is ideally suited to it. Second, we have a deep-seated conviction that mathematics—in any case some mathematics—is best discussed in a context which is not exclusively mathematical... Electrostatics is based on three facts, each known from experiment and none presently understood in terms of any deeper or more basic concepts.

Div, Grad, Curl, And All That

H.M Schey 1973

[vincelok]

It feels like a job that can't just be replaced by a computer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8MEMms5xGQk User Ellellevlog on YouTube

[vincelok]

Henry Rollins: Surviving The America 

“ I don't have talent I have tenacity you know, I have discipline, I have focus, and I know without any illusion where I come from and what I can go back to...”

“And that's when I realized you better get plan b, c, d, e, f and g, otherwise you're going to starve to death in the America. The America is not a place you live in, it's a video game that you that you survive. You know I'm not only an American I'm an Americanist. I survive America in spite of what it wants to do to people like me.”

[vincelok]

...One is remiss in forgetting that which was enjoined some time previously: the want of will renders a person negligent; the want of interest renders a person remiss: one is negligent in regard to business, and the performance of bodily labor; one is remiss in duty, or in such things as respect mental exertion.

English Synonyms Explained… By George Crabb

[vincelok]

In terms of an action item for failing, one thing that we say, is, if you have to do something that’s really hard, whether it’s writing a paper, whether it’s…working in something business, or school; if you gotta do it–do it really quickly, really poorly. Just do it. Just sit down and just do it. And your gonna produce junk and garbage. But within that mess, you might find gems. And all of a sudden it will start to organize your thinking and your ideas. And now you iterate, and now you begin a process, of refining, and failing and failing, and all of a sudden bang! You got it. …The idea is that, by iterating, we were able to produce something that…was the right thing for us to produce.

Professor Edward Burger From YouTube Video, “A Conversation with Edward B. Burger about The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking”

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[vincelok]

Beginning of a bit

When I was 22 I crashed my dads motorcycle. I asked him to take me riding , but I sort of took the ride by his suggestion. I trust him a lot and I made the assumption that if he felt this was dangerous or beyond me at this time, he’d voice his opinion even if I myself was convinced that I was ready-which I totally wasn’t. I had no confidence and I didn’t like the situation going in-riding in the small crowded blocks of his neighborhood in Compton where people regularly sped through residential streets, blowing stop signs and turning speed bumps into instant rollercoasters.

But I got on the bike and “felt the acclerator,” under his instruction. The last words my dad said, and actually repeated three times, just before I took off, were;

“Whatever you do—don’t drop my bike.”

The truly worst part of this irony hit me at the end of the day while struggling through calculus homework, in that I felt something wrong, just really chapping my ass. It was that I trusted him to look out for me, and he, in some weird way, failed that trust, ‘by trusting me’, to do this thing that in his own words, “Anyone can do, if you fall you’re fucking stupid, cause that’s just like falling off a bicycle, now tell me how the fuck you gonna do that?”

Let me tell you—its nothing like falling off a bicycle, and we know this because not a lot of dudes are out there telling the time their life flashed before their eyes when they dumped the Schwinn.

[vincelok]

What good is livin The life you’ve been given If all your doin is standin in place

"Ends of the Earth," By Lord Huron

End of Shameless Season 3